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It is Copyscape Claus, I guess Ryan put that ‘r’ by mistake.

Oops, I must have imagined that extra “r” in the name.

I was wondering how they track the searches as well because I was able to do them without creating an account. I’ll be going over the limit here soon so i’ll probably know. I don’t think it would be realistic to track this by IP address.

BTW, I wonder how they track your “20 searches” per month.
Do you need to have an account with them to search?

With 0.05 a search it may actually be cheaper than to have a premium account for most bloggers.

“Copyscrape makes it easy to try and find anyone who is copying your posts by looking for other blogs that match a large number of your words.”

Like your image shows, it should be “Copyscape”

Anyway, I periodically use it every few weeks. Sometimes it finds other bloggers who are quoting one of my posts and once I found a bot-scrape of one of my blog-posts dumped into a robo-blog.

Pretty handy.

Cheers!

I think the technology relies on a large number of words being copied as you mentioned. I wrote a blog post recently that was copied, a few paragraphs were changed but I recognized the content. Copyscrape didn’t pick this one up, but it did correctly detect legitimate sites that I knew about it already. So a few sites may escape detection, but it could have good potential for spotting people who copycat word for word.

I can’t see the point of people stealing other’s ideas. It won’t gain any respect in the blogging world. If I link to another blog I always try to put my angle on the story or add something extra, always linking back to the original story.