Plagiarism – trial by Google
Posted by AdminOct 4
I was Googling around, as you do, when I spotted a photo of Fakenham on Google Images that looked familiar. Sure enough, it was one of mine – but not on one of my sites. Looking at the site itself (it was a local accommodation website) threw up several photos nicked off FakenhamWeb without permission. Whats more, the author had also swiped loads of my text too – without so much as a ‘by your leave’. A swift email got the required response and the offending material was removed.
But this had me wondering what else was out there - and this was quite an interesting exercise… I did a search for a phrase I’d used on one of my pages – “Pretty brick-and-flint faced buildings” – click the link and you’ll see what I found. Cool.
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