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Re: [Anti-Plagiarism] Search Strategies?

I'm sure someone else will chime in but something
we've found works is a slight extension of the
technique you're using but plugging in a whole key
sentence or two into Google. This is useful if you get
too many hits even for a phrase. I forget the limit on
Google but I think it's at least 100-200 characters.

--- earrach1 <earrach@...> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm new to this list and I was wondering if anyone
> has any good
> tricks for searching the web for unauthorized use of
> one's web-texts.
>
> I'm assuming that one way would be to take key
> phrases from each
> work and cut'n paste it into a Google search. When
> I've done that I
> have at least come up with a confirmation of Google
> being able to
> find the text on my own website.
>
> Are there any better/slicker ways of doing this?
>
> - Earrach
>
> Sassafras Grove, ADF
> Pittsburgh PA
> www.sassafrasgrove.org


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Hello all! I'm new to this list and I was wondering if anyone has any good tricks for searching the web for unauthorized use of one's web-texts. I'm assuming...
earrach1
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Jan 19, 2005
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I think searching for 'key phrases' in google works well. Also I know university profs sometimes use some sort of program that scans the net for that sort of...
Michael Small
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Jan 20, 2005
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I'm sure someone else will chime in but something we've found works is a slight extension of the technique you're using but plugging in a whole key sentence or...
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