How to Find Near-Duplicate Web Pages on a Large Scale

You can find duplicated content taken from your webpage.

While the Internet is a powerful tool for sharing information and content, it also opens the door to content theft and plagiarism. When you post a webpage on the Internet, anyone who visits can highlight your text and copy it and paste it into their own webpage, creating a duplicate of your content. You can use free plagiarism searches to find websites that have taken your content and duplicated it online.

Instructions

1. Go to a free webpage plagiarism search service such as Copyscape, CopyGator, CopyrightSpot or Plagiarism Checker.com.

2. Type in the exact URL address of the website you want to check for plagiarism, then press the "Enter" key.

3. Allow the website to search the Internet for duplicated content and blocks of text. This may take some time and will take you to a new page when complete.

4. Review the results of the search. This will provide you with a list of websites that may have duplicated content of your website material.

5. Visit the links from the search result to determine whether the content on the websites have taken content from your webpage.

6. Repeat the search process with each webpage you would like to check.

References

• Copyscape: About Plagiarism

Resources

• Copyscape
• CopyGator
• CopyrightSpot
• Plagiarism Checker.com