Thread: Plagiarism Search

This is something very useful for media companies like ours, Checking the authenticity of a guest article or even checking if an article is being used by someone else or not on the Internet was never easy before these Plagiarism searches came in. These websites use APIs of Google or similar search engines. The main aim of such web portals is to search for each and every sentence in any webpage and search for exactly same or similar sentences/word sequences in some other articles and then give a plagiarism score to that article. It also highlights the copied/similar texts in all the articles.

Another very intuitive use of such service for hunting down phishing websites. A bank can pass its site's content to copyescape.com or similar website to check if someone is phishing its website. As a phishing site must have the same text and similar layout, it would be easily caught.