Web plagiarism

[fdle]

If Your manager at the company you are working for found out that the company website has been copied, but unfortunately he does not remember the name of the offending website.and he asks you to start investigating and report back to him in one hour.and All you have is an Internet connection. What do you do?

[Iguana]

search for copyscape - type a unique string in -and it should appear

Good luck

[netchicken1]

make a post here asking for help!

Copy and paste unique text from the page into google and see what other sites come up

[jomaxx]

Search within double quotes -- this will match only the exact phrase within the quotes. Shouldn't be hard, assuming the site is in Google.

[JollyK]

Generally something about the phrasing on one of your pages will be just a little unique. I have at least one phrase on most of my pages that you just don't really find elsewhere. Then I go to google and put in, e.g.

"most of my pages that you just don't really find elsewhere"

and see what comes up. :-)

My favorite was the one where a college student downloaded an article I wrote on copyright and plagiarism and turned it in as his own work. The professor caught it (she'd seen the journal I'd published it in), and dropped me an email. I don't think I laughed so hard in weeks.

I've found thousands of stolen pages by just looking for one phrase. The phrase sounds okay, so no one bothers to change it. Little do they know it's a dead giveaway.

JK

[stapel]

...a college student downloaded an article I wrote on copyright and plagiarism and turned it in as his own work. The professor caught it...and dropped me an email.

That's hilarious!

;-)

Eliz.