With today's sponsored post, I'd like to talk about an interesting tool or application called the Free Plagiarism Checker. It is designed to quickly search for duplicate content on the web using the 'big three' of search engines (Google or Yahoo or MSN or a collection of all three).
You can paste a section of content, upload a file or point the application to a URL. I tried FAST search, and that seemed to not be working properly. I'm sure the site is still working out a few bugs. When I was referred to this site, it mentioned that this was the article checker blog where it would spotlight interesting article checker captures. At the time of this writing, I've not seen this, but is something to look out for in the future. When you've specified your content, simply click 'Compare' to let the application begin its search. Results are returned as a percentage for duplicate content probability.
If you are concerned about sites scraping content from your site, this would be a good place to start to determine the probability of certain articles. If you are returned a high probability, you would then begin to specifically search for content and track down sites that are scraping.
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