Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Weekend Linkroll - 05-10-08

By Jonathan Bailey • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Linkblog, Uncategorized

It was another busy week for copyright news with updates and opinions from across the copyright spectrum. Be on the lookout for news from the AAs, Congress, Bittorrernt trackers and many, many more places.



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.



Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before.



A Warning for Email List Admins

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

As scraping via email has gained greater attention, the problem has brought the problem of spam blogs to the doorstep of mailing list administrators and group moderators. Learn how to protect your list.



Workfriendly: Yet Another Issue

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences, Prevention

Workfriendly, a script that masks the Web to look like an open Microsoft Word document, may have been created as a joke, but it continues to create serious problems for the Webmasters that it scrapes.



Weekend Linkroll 04-05-08

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Linkblog

It’s been a frantic week for copyright news major upheavals in the RIAA’s lawsuit escapade and ISPs standing up to big copyright. This is a week you don’t want to miss.



Open Call: Your DMCA Stories

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences

Have you ever had an abuse agent go out of his way to help you? What about a DMCA agent who ignored your letters? Here is your chance to tell the world.



Spam Blogs and AdSense Dollars

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Prevention

Adsense keywords can fluctuate wildly in price. So what happens when a keyword related to your site becomes the subject of a bidding war? One Austin attorney found out.



Why Blog Searching Fails

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences, Products, Punditry

Blog searching has become an important tool both for gathering the information I use on this site, but also for staying on top of content theft issues. Unfortunately, blog searching has deteriorated to the point of uselessness and I break down why.



Search Engine Showdown: Testing Plagiarism Detection

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

How does your search engine do when detecting plagiarism? I’ve tested five different search engines and how many matches of my work they find. These tests provide some surprising results and offer insight into which services are best for plagiarism detection.