Online plagiarism detection tool

[Roots Webmaster]

Having heard so many people complain about ancestral data being swiped off
their personal websites without permission or attribution, I thought this
might be of interest.

Type in your URL and see if anyone is plagiarizing (i.e. stealing) your
family trees without permission. It checks only the page you enter, so if
you have multiple pages at your website, like for different surnames, you
must enter each URL individually.

http://www.copyscape.com/

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[Denis Beauregard]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:00:33 -0500, Roots Webmaster <[email protected]>
wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:

Having heard so many people complain about ancestral data being swiped off
their personal websites without permission or attribution, I thought this
might be of interest.

Type in your URL and see if anyone is plagiarizing (i.e. stealing) your
family trees without permission. It checks only the page you enter, so if
you have multiple pages at your website, like for different surnames, you
must enter each URL individually.

http://www.copyscape.com/

Have you tested it ?

In my site, I have rotating banners at the top. One of them is
a text, the others are pictures.

In one test, copyscape found 5 sites that repeated some pages
from my site, but all were some kind of directory or fake web
site (to hide the domain name is a parking), and while that line
was from my site, copyscape found different pages.


Denis