We know there are many plagiarism checkers out there, both online and offline products.
Some people are willing to pay while others prefer free tools.
Copyscape is popular because you get to enjoy both free and paid services.
I have questions for writers out there, who are using Copyscape.
Is Copyscape reliable?
Are your customers happy with your work, after checking with Copyscape?
Do you use more than one plagiarism checker?
Do you compare the results?
According to Search Engine Journal, Copyscape has a 90% reliability and by far the most reliable tool of all.
Personally I like Plagiarism Detect, because I find rather reliable as well, perhaps better than Copyscape.
I have been using Plagiarism Detect for a very long time and I find it easy to check the authenticity of an article based on the percentage and the links that contain the material from the article.
What do you think?
Do you use a plagiarism checker for your work?
Or you don’t even care about plagiarism checker at all?
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May 8, 2010 at 1:27 pm | Permalink |
Hi Rajun. Thanks for being a constant comment poster here. I truly appreciate it. Well, I have decided to go uncopyright. I guess I am too tired of having to check everything all the time.
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May 8, 2010 at 8:57 am | Permalink |
I do care about plagiarism but don't spend anytime as most of the time is gone in writing for Triond, Bukisa and their related source pages at my blog. It certainly does not feel good when we find our article ditto at any other site without our permission. If there is a way to comment on that page I will leave a comment mentioning that it was my article and it would be good to leave a backlink or credit to my website.
I used to check only Google and no site like copyscape because if it appears in Google then only the plagiarist is any benefit from copying and I would bother to care about it. Otherwise it is best left ignored. What do we do if we get to know that somebody copied our article and sent it as email to their friends? Don't we ignore that?
On the other hand recently I found a best remedy for this kind of problem. That is to release our article under creative commons licenses. Any site will allow us to do this (in one way or the other). Bukisa has inbuilt option and many release their article under this license without knowing while at Triond we need to place footnote about the license. Triond has updated their site so that if somebody copies any text, the text would also accompany a link "Read more" to the article so atleast attribution link (SEO) benefit is achieved if not counter the problem altogether. If the copy in question has high page rank or traffic it will then divert a share of that benefit to our original article. That is why I am releasing almost all my blog pages under attribution licenses.
When somebody wanting to copy notices the license he/she is likely to follow the terms of license and even if half of the copiers do this I will get the benefit of plagiarism. This will also do auto-promotion of blogs. Entire Wikipedia (and its sister projects) are thriving because of the licensing mechanism.
I noticed that your blog too has a CC license but cc-by-nd-nc which is almost equivalent to no free license as it restricts most websites from copying. You should consider changing to cc-by-sa or cc-by for the best benefit. Most people copy only a part of the article and not whole, which is also good for us hence cc-by-nd is more harmful for us. I never use that license.
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May 8, 2010 at 4:21 pm | Permalink |
Hi Sarah,
I just noticed your copyfree announcement on the top of the right column. I think it would help you and I as a commenter in terms of little page rank if you also add attribution link. Copyfree is a public domain license for which one need not give attribution and do whatever one wants with that work. Along with public domain license you may also mention that you would appreciate if a link is given back to the site.
In the earlier comment I had ignored about some articles which we do not wish to license to others. They could be personal, highly researched or work of our close friends or advertisers etc. Then they are worth bothering about. Mostly we publish them under well paid websites or magazines so they take care of their copyrights. If you have an article like that you can explicitly mention the copyright reservation for that and also that there are other articles that can be copied but not this.
Although I am writing articles at Triond on subjects other than writing, I constantly try to improve so that views & earnings can increase. As such I like reading articles from other writers who write on writing. By commenting here I not only gained some useful information but also some SEO.
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May 8, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Permalink |
That's a very good idea.
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I did a copyscape and…
1 person who used the text from mine website http://www.keramiekraku.nl/raku.html was recognized.
But if I put in just at hyves, I find 2 results.
But these results are not via copyscape……..
Results I find with google (just print a line and you’ll find somebody using your text) more than I find with copyscape.