Who pinched my post?
April 22nd 2007 08:27
Ginene at FlavaOfBlog just alerted me to a utility called Copyscape. Here you can put your blog address in a box and Copyscape will check for you if you’ve been copied anywhere on the Net.
Always willing to give things a try, I entered the address of my blogspot blog, and lo and behold, one of my posts was copied to Ice Rocket.com just 17 hours ago. I’ve come across IceRocket before. It seems to be some sort of search engine that focuses on searching blogs rather than the Net in its entirety. (Someone may be able to enlighten me further on its purpose.)
It’s a sort of a compliment to find you’ve been picked up in this way. Seems someone was searching on the word ‘memory’ and my post on HitTails and Memory came up. So I’m not sure if I’d class this as ‘copying’. Certainly no one’s going to do much with it on IceRocket, as far as I can make out.
If I’d found that one of my articles on Triond was copied to another site, it would be a different matter. But a post? Nah, not worth worrying about. On the myLot site there was one forum participant who, for a while, was copying other people’s posts and putting them up as his own. Now that’s irritating, especially when he included one of mine in the same discussion, so that it seemed as though both of us were saying exactly the same thing!
Always willing to give things a try, I entered the address of my blogspot blog, and lo and behold, one of my posts was copied to Ice Rocket.com just 17 hours ago. I’ve come across IceRocket before. It seems to be some sort of search engine that focuses on searching blogs rather than the Net in its entirety. (Someone may be able to enlighten me further on its purpose.)
It’s a sort of a compliment to find you’ve been picked up in this way. Seems someone was searching on the word ‘memory’ and my post on HitTails and Memory came up. So I’m not sure if I’d class this as ‘copying’. Certainly no one’s going to do much with it on IceRocket, as far as I can make out.
If I’d found that one of my articles on Triond was copied to another site, it would be a different matter. But a post? Nah, not worth worrying about. On the myLot site there was one forum participant who, for a while, was copying other people’s posts and putting them up as his own. Now that’s irritating, especially when he included one of mine in the same discussion, so that it seemed as though both of us were saying exactly the same thing!
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