copyscape alternative?

'Copyscape' charges US$ 0.50 per search. Initially it may not sound costly. But the hidden fact is that you have to buy the search options as a bouquet of 50, 100, 200 or 500. That means you have to pay a lot starting from US$ 25.
Still, there is nothing that matches 'copyscape pro'.

 

Actually it is only .05 cents a search. You must buy at least 100 searches ( $5 ) which is no big deal and well worth it
And with this service you can enter a url to check or you can just paste in text to have checked.

 

If you are on wordpress there is a nifty little plugin which is probably called anti theft or wp thumbprint. (Just google stolen content wordpress plugin lol) which is quite awesome. It actually imprints an invisible thumbprint in each page/post which automatically detects the contents and notifies you immediately when and after it is being published, regardless whether they embed the feed or copy the post, they are caught!

 

sorry to bring back an old thread

noticed that http://www.articlechecker.com/ was down

anyone using anything other than copyscape

 

I used to use both articlechecker.com and blogoscope quotefinder (http://blogoscoped.com/quotefinder/) as an alternative for copyscape. Hope my answer wasn't too late

 

I use articlechecker, it is similar to Copyscape, but can sometimes be a little slow...

 

I can suggest the following desktop free software http://textbroker.ru/main/dcfinder.html, it russian soft, but I used it for english texts. It doesn't required installation, you can paste your text in program and it will find all copies. If anybody will use it, please let us know your opinions about it in comparison with copyscape.

 

Here are 2 I came across:

http://www.bitscan.com/
http://www.duplicatecheck.com/

 

IMO, http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/? is the best utility.

 

Lots of great article tools can be found at the end of this article, including several ways to check your unique content

 

A little heads up here, a few sites mentioned here show something as passed but copyscape will pick up whole copied paragraphs, there are a lot of poor sites in this thread.

 

I like to use PlagiarismDetect. It is more detailed as you can search books, pdf..

 

@writingConsultation

This is a cool plugin! Thanks I will try it now.

 

You are welcome.

 

@ WritingConsultation

Works like a charm. Thanks for the link

 

I would like to recommend http://www.percentdupe.com/. It is FREE.

 

LET THIS OVER 2 YEAR OLD POST DIE, THIS IS 2010

The future is for learners and earners. Not to be offensive, but This whole post is useless if you want to keep up to date. In fact if you read a recent ruling in DP on the blog section, you would see that bringing back an old posting is grounds for an infraction.

 

I think it's the similar threads function that is creating this problem. As I type this, the newest post in my list is dated from April of 2008.

 

No they are not. Copy text from site. Paste in note pad or similar text editor All that is left is just the text and nobody will be notified if that gets republished.

 

It's amazing how someone took one year to say "nice, thank you" and other comes with a recommendation nobody is actually asking.

Even worst, discussing about using Wordpress with someone who would probably is not longer in business or using such script!