Posts Tagged ‘search’

Proposal: Feed Republishing List

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

With so many new search engines, directories and social news sites repurposing the full feed, often against the will of bloggers, perhaps it is time to have a central repository of this information. Leave a comment and have your voice heard on this matter.



Search Engines: Three to Beware

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues

Shyftr is not the first site to make use of your full feed or offer commenting as part of a user experience. Here are three other sites that you may want to take a look at.



Attributor Talks About Search Economy

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Videos

In a new video by HyveUp, content tracking company Attributor talks about their vision for the Web and the role that copying may play in the search economy.



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.



Video: How to Use Google Alerts

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Videos

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to use Google Alerts to detect plagiarism, this is the video for you. Learn how to automate your plagiarism detection in just eight minutes.



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 [...]



Updates to “Stopping Internet Plagiarism” Series

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 27th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

I’ve noted for some time that the “Stopping Internet Plagiarism” series on the site has fallen into grave disrepair. For example, the instructions for finding the host referenced a service that has not been operation for almost a year and offered complicated instructions when easier tools were available.
So, I’ve started taking some time to rewrite [...]



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 [...]



FeelImage No Longer Displaying Flickr Photos

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

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 [...]