Checking Your Articles Online
A very important part of DupeFree Pro is the 'Online' button shown below:
Each window pane has its own 'Online' button located immediately under it. These seemingly inconspicuous buttons can do quite a lot for you...
Checking Online For Content Plagiarism:
To check if an article of yours has been copied by someone without your permission and is being used on another website online simply open your article in to a DupeFree Pro window pane and click the 'Online' button. What happens now is DupeFree Pro picks five random sentences from the article and performs a quotes search (i.e. "a random sentence") on them in the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo & MSN). A search using quotes is an 'exact match' search and so the search engines will only return web pages that contain the exact sentences between the quotes.
This whole process happens in the background without you seeing it, so please be patient for DupeFree Pro to complete the task - and if you have a slow connection you may need to be a little more patient than usual,... it will finnish in good time! :-)
When DupeFree Pro has completed the online check a browser window will open displaying results similar to the example shown below:
As shown in the screen shot above you are presented with 5 sets of results; one set for each sentence checked. If the full text body in DupeFree Pro contained less than 5 sentences in total only the maximum amount of sentences available would be checked (i.e. for a text body containing a total of just 3 sentences DupeFree Pro would perform an online check on all 3).
The diagram below shows example details of a set of results for a single sentence checked.
As you can see from above each result displays the sentence that was checked and just below that a number is output next to the names of each search engine that was queried: Google, Yahoo & MSN. Each number represents the total number of results found at that specific search engine. These numbers provide you with an idea as to whether your article may be appearing on someone else's site; so if the number is '0' you are probably OK, but if the number is '1' or greater you may want to check out the search results to make sure your content is not being plagiarized.
For your convenience, these search results numbers are also hyperlinks which when clicked on open the associated search engine with the search query already performed for you. This is useful if you want to verify the results for yourself and visit the websites that may possibly be containing your article.
Discover An Articles Search Engine Saturation:
There is a handy feature of the online check function which enables you to force an online check of a specific section of text rather than just letting DupeFree Pro select 5 sentences at random. All you need to do is first select a section of text in a window pane by highlighting the text with your mouse and then when you click the 'Online' button DupeFree Pro will now use the selected section of text when querying the Search Engines. This is demonstrated in the screen shots below...
An example use for this feature is performing checks on an articles title thus enabling you to find out the search engine saturation of that article. So, if you had written an article which you previously submitted to a number of article directories you can now quickly see how many web pages the article appears on that the search engines are aware of. This an efficient way to gauge whether your articles are getting successfully picked up.
A few things to note about online checking...
When results are returned as positive for having found websites containing the checked sentences this does not mean that your article has definitely been found on that many web pages. It can only be taken as the exact sentence has been found on that many web pages and so you must check out the results for yourself to be sure if your article is in fact appearing on the web pages. This is the reason DupeFree Pro picks 5 sentences and not just one in the normal online checking method. You need to look at all five random sentence results numbers collectively in order to arrive at a fair conclusion as to whether your content may be getting widely plagiarized.
One thing to bear in mind about search engines is that they can only return results for pages they actually have indexed and so the results numbers returned cannot be taken as 'black and white' definitive data. They may be web pages online that the search engines are not yet aware of which contain your content. Also, some search engines (Google in particular) are known for not telling the whole story in their results so the returned results should always be taken as suggestive rather than cold hard fact.
The online checking function of DupeFree Pro is programmed to read the search engines returned html pages as this is how DupeFree Pro extracts the data. From time to time the search engines change their web page code which may prevent this function of DupeFree Pro from working properly. However, this should not happen often, but when it does rest assured DupeFree Pro will be updated very quickly, with a new release adjusted to cater for the new search engine results page code. If you have noticed this issue with DupeFree Pro but it has not yet been fixed please send me a message about it via the DupeFree Pro contact page and it will get fixed ASAP.
Be sure to use the 'online' buttons sparingly because if you hammer the search engines with queries they will think you are a bot and will temporarily ban your IP which is a pain. If this does happen and you are on a dynamic IP just reboot your modem to be automatically reassigned a new IP from your ISP and you should be able to continue without issue. However, if your IP is static you may have to wait it out until your IP gets cleared at the search engine.
This concludes the section in online article checking.
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