Find Plagiarizers of Your Content the Easy Way
Posted on May 2, 2010 at 5:56 am
Charles Colton once wrote that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” However, when you write for a living, imitation means lost revenue. Those of us who write for the Web must stay constantly vigilant against those who steal our unique content and use it as their own for profit.
It can be a time-sucking task to hunt down plagiarizers, but a new Web site called Plagium.com can cut many hours off the hunt.
The concept here is super simple. First, copy a block of text from your Web site, article or essay. Now, paste it into Plagium’s search box and click Track Plagiarisms on the right.
The text we used in this first test is from an article we wrote on March 20, 2010 about Jailbreaking the iPhone. Plagium compiles a chart and list of all the places on the Web or in the news that our text has appeared:
The chart is arranged by date. When you hover over the maroon bubbles with your mouse, the potential plagiarizer’s Web site address appears. Click the bubble and you are directed to their site.
Most of the time, the suspected plagiarizers are people that are honestly linking back to our articles, like in the case of this PC Mike article. At first glance, looks like it might be plagiarized, but his link to read the entire article (bottom right of the page) links back to Online-Tech-Tips.com, which is a relief, considering PC Mike is a respected tech expert for NBC. This is the kind of attention we like.
If the chart is confusing, a list follows it in true search-engine-like format. Click any link and you are taken directly to the potential plagiarizers page.
Now, on this site, we suspect plagiarism. There is no link or reference to Online-Tech-Tips in this re-pasting of our article. There is not even a mention of the article having originated from a different blog. Our eyebrows are raised in suspicion…
Besides pasting your text into Plagium’s search box, you can also use a URL to track plagiarism. Click the link at the top left of your screen that says Check URL. You can then paste your article’s URL into the search box. Click Track Plagiarisms to see your results.
Our results were much different when we used the URL rather than pasting our text. Plagium found absolutely no potential plagiarizers for this article that triggered 25 potential plagiarizers based on just its text.
Plagium offers the option to setup alerts to tell you when a new potential plagiarizer uses your content. Right now, this feature appears to be in Beta testing, as it would not load during our test. Even without these alerts, though, Plagium is a very helpful tool for all Web writers.
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It is a good concept , but I did not find it particularly useful. When I checked my blog it found various directories that had listed small quotes from the blog while linking to it which is quite acceptable. Still an excellent article !
Very Good information. Plagium is a great tool to check the plagiarism. It not only help the plagiarism but also the duplicate contents for the new publisher