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 [...]

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: See footer of article for iPlagiarismCheck’s response.
When Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, set out to test and compare the top plagiarism detection tools available, she never expected to catch one of the programs in a lie.
However, it appears that is exactly what she did.
As she [...]

Mahalo describes itself as the world’s first human-powered search engine. It is an attempt to eliminate search engine spam by having humans write and maintain the top search results.
It is a bold initiative and, to help achieve that goal, Mahalo has created a simple javascript bookmarklet to look for plagiarized or duplicate content. The idea [...]

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 [...]

Image search engine FeelImage, previously discussed here, has stopped displaying Flickr results in its pages.
This comes after Cybele, along with others, noticed that the site appeared to violating Flickr’s terms of use and posted about it in the Flickr forum.
In the replies to Cybele’s post, a Flickr staff member named “Kevin” posted a [...]