Posts Tagged ‘copyscape’

Frustration and Fighting Plagiarism

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Uncategorized

If you read this site regularly, you probably know a great deal about how to protect your content on the Web. However, you probably also know that the current system is an inelegant solution in need of serious repair. Here’s what’s wrong and what can be done about it.



Using Copyscape to Detect Derivative Works

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 13th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

Every tool has a purpose and Copyscape has its. Though weaker on verbatim plagiarism, it can help detect cases where the work has been rewritten and the regular search engines struggle to keep up.



Bitscan Seeks Testers

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

New plagiarism-detection service Bitscan is seeking help in tuning and refining its service.
To do that, they are encouraging users to take advantage of a their free scan offer and submit feedback on the quality of the results they have received.
Anyone who is familiar with Copyscape should have little trouble using the service. You simply visit [...]



Copyscape Improved Again

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 2nd, 2007 • Category: Articles, Products

Last week, I received another email from Gideon Greenspan of Copyscape telling me that he and his team had made further tweaks to the system that should, in theory, drastically improve the services ability to detect cases of mass plagiarism.
The service had already shown promising improvements after the first review was so unimpressive. However, [...]



Update: Copyscape Drastically Improved

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 18th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Products

Since my previous review of Copyscape Premium, I’ve been communicating with Gideon Greenspan, one of the co-founders of Copyscape, about the issues I experienced with the service. He, and the others who work on Copyscape, have been very interested in my results and in improving their service.
They repeated my tests with roughly the same [...]



Copyscape Premium: An Epic Letdown

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 28th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences, Products

When bloggers talk about protecting their work from plagiarism, one name gets more buzz than any other: Copyscape.
Though I’ve been very critical of Copyscape in the past on this site, it is clear that they are the only company currently serving this niche and many people are excited about their services.
However, the biggest criticism they’ve [...]