findsame.com

Advantages: Helps stop thieves
Disadvantages: Only a demo - limited

...made a lot easier. findsame.com showcases Digital Integrity's text searching software. Instead of the search term approach engines like Google and Altavista use, findsame.com searching for whole chunks of text. As you might imagine, this is especially useful for searching for replicas of text you have written, be it for something like Ciao, or something even more serious like a student's dissertation or a scientific paper. It is plain to see how ...
...very small amount comparatively. Findsame.com also gives you the options of downloading addons for Word and your browser so you can cross-check the text you are looking at with text elsewhere on the Net. Overall, findsame.com is full of options, but this does not excuse the fact that it is still a demo, and there's a large chance that the text that you're searching for is still out there somewhere. However, for free, you'll just have to bear this ... Read review

Advantages: the best site to catch cheats
Disadvantages: -

...does this site help, well findsame.com has Digital Integrity’s ability to search for content, not keywords, so if whole chunks of your work have been copied then this site will find out. Good job it doesn’t just check keywords because otherwise it would have millions of matches. So, what you do is submit an entire document and they will find a list of web pages that contain any ‘chunks’ of it. This is a great site for reward ...
...very simple to use and results are fast. Luckily no-one has copied my work but it’s a great site to have if you think your work is vulnerable. I know we all know but once you submit your work on the net on whatever site it is vulnerable, so don’t submit important documents even on homepage. In my friends case show off your work after it’s been marked to prevent plagiarism. If you need any further help from this site then feel free ... Read review

Advantages: Free, sometimes useful on Ciao.
Disadvantages: It is only a demo. People are sometimes confused by the way it displays results.

...The thing to remember about FindSame.com is that it is a demo site. You’ll find links there from its authors that take you back to their main homepage and links of other products DI can offer. > Reporting Cheats This part of the review has nothing to do with FindSame, you can stop reading. However, I think pointing out the easy-peasy procedure of reporting cheats to Ciao would not be amiss here. On the bottom of the page there is a “Contact ...
...take you to a simple table. Simply select “abuse” from the menu, type in a return address for the email (your own so abuse can tell you what they’ve done about it) and then type in what you’ve discovered. I always copy the URL (the internet address of the offending review) into the message box so Ciao staff can find it quickly. ... Read review

Advantages: Has a powerful text comparison search
Disadvantages: Not a definitive solution

...in our armoury... findsame.com allows you to enter a section of text (from a line of text to a whole page, and to match it to a webpage or webpages. A short paragraph from the oreilly.com website it turns out crops up all over the place, and the service claims that one of its principal uses is to stop students from using plagiarised assignments on the web. It is very quick and the layout is simple and results are displayed very legibly, so that you ...
...point of view. Findsame.com is very easy to use, offering either a copy and paste search (where you can insert a suspect item) or a URL search, whereby you can check a web page, for similarities. Sadly for online opinion sites, ops are not generally included, but the number of people still persisting by directly plagiarising corporate websites, who can of course be caught is incredible. A new Word 2000 allows you to check word documents and there ... Read review

Advantages: check your work before putting it on ciao
Disadvantages: cheats can use this to there advantage

...have been recently informed that findsame.com is the site to go to in order to check blocks of text to see if it resembles others work on the world wide web. Just visit findsame.com, when you arrive there is an easy to use interface. Just a “memo box” and an "edit box". In the "memo box" you add the block of text you want to check and click search, or, add the path of the file that you want to check by using the “edit box”, ...
...the results page, the block of text is analyzed and is highlighted in blue if it resembles that of a particular website. Under the block of text, the sites are shown which the block of text resembles, and the percentage of the block which is included in the website. Overall to conclude about the site, it has an easy to use look about it, which is good for beginners. The fact that it can help you in writing opinions in order not to get accused of ... Read review