Content plagiarism on the web spreads as fast as the web itself.
With blogging, which is usually written words, an original thought becomes the archetype .
Duplicate content is the bane of webmasters and even bloggers.
A blogger can see his work being scraped on another site.
The bane - a lower page rank by search engines like Google which hatesduplicate content.
Many tools exist which help us in sidestepping prickly copyright issues.
The professional ones are of course potent, spiffy and dollar loving.
Here at MakeUseOf, we have previously covered quite a few content tracking web services.
Here are five more for the armory.
Content checking is optional with either Google or Yahoo.
Plagiarism Checker thus limits the phrase within the word count.
The word limitation restricts the scope of the content check.
The matches open up in another webpage.
In a previous post we had looked at howGoogle Alertscould be used to keep track of your content.
This service provides a button to theGoogle Alertspage for setting it up.
A webpage can also be submitted for a plagiarism check through a URL.
Both the search engines can be used to compare results.
Input of content is through a text area box or by giving the URL of a webpage.
The checker functions by taking blocks of text and running it through the search engines.
A Google Alert can be set up for the positive matches with a click.
Plagiarism Detect
This is a full-featured web service with a free and a paid option.
The site makes a disclaimer that it does not store the uploaded content.
Despite the basic checking service, the results are neatly displayed for us to sift through.
The plagiarism checker is a simple text area for pasting the relevant text.
The results are highlighted in yellow with the number of sources obtained from the web search.
Clicking on the highlighted phrases takes us to the Google search results page.
It is simple, uncomplicated and relies on the power of Google search.
DOC Cop
This free web service offers the option of aFile Checkand aWeb Check.
We can specify the average string length (i.e.
the number of words) that must be compared.
The report can be optionally obtained in HTML or Doc format through email.
Web Check is limited to a maximum of 550 words.
Again, the word length can be specified using the string length dropdown.
The web tool requires registration and access is through a guest ID.
A real time status indicator shows the current status of the submission.
According to the site, it takes about an hour to generate and send the report using email.
With the help of these free web tools, detecting duplicate content is not too tough a task.
But mostly, it helps each writer check his work against the web to avoid unintentional duplication.
If you write (or publish)“do you check?
