More Blatant Blogiarism

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:32:39 GMT

Today, I stumbed across a very blatant blogiarism. The author is copying posts word-for-word without even a link-back. I've even found (with the help of a friend) comments where the victimized authors complained to him. The complaints went unanswered. The blog is hosted on blogspot and the 3-level domain is ambiraj. He also has a FeedBurner feed. I've forwarded emails to Google and FeedBurner to shut him down. Check it out if you want and don't forget to flag him while you are there. BTW, the best way to defeat blogiarism is to talk about it. If you find any others, then feel free to send me an email and I'll try to get them kicked out of the blogosphere.

Update: Within 6 hours of this post, the blog was 404, no longer present on Blogspot.

Categories: blogiarism blog plagiarism

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Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:03:42 GMT

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http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/09/rajesh-youre-messing-with-the-wrong-people/

Randy

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:49:56 GMT

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Let me start out by saying this is not found in a particular forum, it was not inspired by a forum post, it is not even directly SEO related. But there is a serious issue out there for bloggers. It...

Search Engine Roundtable

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:08:25 GMT

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When Mike over at Tech Crunch went through this last month, one of the commenters pointed to Copyscape (http://www.copyscape.com/). You put in your url and it scours the web looking for matches.
Not really sure it works all that well for blogs because you'd have to put in each url but it does work for more traditional static pages.
I found one that was a complete copy/paste of my Firefox tips page.

Scott
Tech.Life.Blogged

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:35:00 GMT

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It is probably some sort of tool like RSStoBlog - they are making it too easy for people. I'm not promoting this kind of stuff at all, just making the world aware

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:13:17 GMT

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http://blog.zcde.com/2005/12/google-introduces-music-search.html

http://my.opera.com/yuebinliu/blog/show.dml/88049

are both rip-offs of my

http://blog.forret.com/blog/2005/12/google-introduces-music-search.html

that I detected via Technorati because I had included some links to earlier posts of mine.

I think they're 2 blogs by the same (Chinese?) guy.

Peter Forret

http://blog.forret.com

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:56:41 GMT

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