Comments on: Search Engines: Three to Beware http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/ Content Theft, Plagiarism, Copyright Infringement Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:05:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jonathan Baileyhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-96917 Jonathan Bailey Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:22:55 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-96917 Cybele: Let me know if it disappears. That will be one down at least! Cybele: Let me know if it disappears. That will be one down at least!

]]> By: Jonathan Baileyhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-121675 Jonathan Bailey Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:22:55 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-121675 Cybele: Let me know if it disappears. That will be one down at least! Cybele: Let me know if it disappears. That will be one down at least!

]]> By: cybelehttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-96914 cybele Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:03:11 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-96914 After a second note to URL Fan, they say that they've removed my content. (But it hasn't been 24 hours yet to see if there are any cached bits lying around.) After a second note to URL Fan, they say that they’ve removed my content. (But it hasn’t been 24 hours yet to see if there are any cached bits lying around.)

]]> By: cybelehttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-121674 cybele Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:03:11 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-121674 After a second note to URL Fan, they say that they've removed my content. (But it hasn't been 24 hours yet to see if there are any cached bits lying around.) After a second note to URL Fan, they say that they’ve removed my content. (But it hasn’t been 24 hours yet to see if there are any cached bits lying around.)

]]> By: Jonathan Baileyhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-96887 Jonathan Bailey Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:55:55 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-96887 Squirrel: Sadly, no. I can find out the IP address pretty trivially but I do not know the user-agent. I don't think anyone has sought out that information. Since I use FeedBurner, I would not have access to it. If anyone out there with local feeds and is able to glean this information, it would be a huge help! Squirrel: Sadly, no. I can find out the IP address pretty trivially but I do not know the user-agent. I don’t think anyone has sought out that information. Since I use FeedBurner, I would not have access to it. If anyone out there with local feeds and is able to glean this information, it would be a huge help!

]]> By: Jonathan Baileyhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-121673 Jonathan Bailey Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:55:55 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-121673 Squirrel: Sadly, no. I can find out the IP address pretty trivially but I do not know the user-agent. I don't think anyone has sought out that information. Since I use FeedBurner, I would not have access to it. If anyone out there with local feeds and is able to glean this information, it would be a huge help! Squirrel: Sadly, no. I can find out the IP address pretty trivially but I do not know the user-agent. I don’t think anyone has sought out that information. Since I use FeedBurner, I would not have access to it. If anyone out there with local feeds and is able to glean this information, it would be a huge help!

]]> By: Squirrelhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-96868 Squirrel Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:31:16 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-96868 I've been feeding faux content to sploggers/scrapers using their "User Agent". Are the user agents for these "questionable" search engines known? I’ve been feeding faux content to sploggers/scrapers using their “User Agent”. Are the user agents for these “questionable” search engines known?

]]> By: Squirrelhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-121672 Squirrel Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:31:16 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-121672 I've been feeding faux content to sploggers/scrapers using their "User Agent". Are the user agents for these "questionable" search engines known? I’ve been feeding faux content to sploggers/scrapers using their “User Agent”. Are the user agents for these “questionable” search engines known?

]]> By: Jonathan Baileyhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-96857 Jonathan Bailey Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:19:17 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-96857 Cybele: I agree on all fronts. Blogdimension needs a great deal of work and so does URLFan. However, like you, I actually think they might have a valuable service buried in there somewhere. The problem is that you can't see it because the actual tool stinks and the infringement is kind of blinding.I don't really know if we need another blog search engine, but URLFan at least has something original, if they can clean up their act... Cybele: I agree on all fronts. Blogdimension needs a great deal of work and so does URLFan. However, like you, I actually think they might have a valuable service buried in there somewhere. The problem is that you can’t see it because the actual tool stinks and the infringement is kind of blinding.

I don’t really know if we need another blog search engine, but URLFan at least has something original, if they can clean up their act…

]]> By: Jonathan Baileyhttp://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/17/search-engines-three-to-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-121671 Jonathan Bailey Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:19:17 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=943#comment-121671 Cybele: I agree on all fronts. Blogdimension needs a great deal of work and so does URLFan. However, like you, I actually think they might have a valuable service buried in there somewhere. The problem is that you can't see it because the actual tool stinks and the infringement is kind of blinding.<br><br>I don't really know if we need another blog search engine, but URLFan at least has something original, if they can clean up their act... Cybele: I agree on all fronts. Blogdimension needs a great deal of work and so does URLFan. However, like you, I actually think they might have a valuable service buried in there somewhere. The problem is that you can’t see it because the actual tool stinks and the infringement is kind of blinding.

I don’t really know if we need another blog search engine, but URLFan at least has something original, if they can clean up their act…

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