Posts Tagged ‘icerocket’

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.



RSS Brief: Another Scraping/Spam Threat

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 14th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Yesterday, the makers of the controversial Pay Per Post service launched a new tool designed to make blog reading faster, RSS Brief.
The idea is that the service takes long posts, like what you might expect here on Plagiarism Today, and condenses them down into a few short sentences.
Though the service sounds convenient and [...]



Reporting Content Theft and Blacklisting Plagiarists

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 12th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Products

SoloSEO, an SEO company from Utah, announced on their blog that they are starting a database of sites that plagiarize content and are asking other Webmasters to contribute to it.
The idea is that, in addition to shaming and drawing attention to sites that steal, the list can eventually be used, in conjunction with plugins, to [...]