Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

Want to know who’s using your content on the web? Try Copyscape (in Beta and by the Google Alert folks). I entered LibrarianInBlack.net and found mixed results. It listed my own site as the first content-borrower which I thought was strange. But perhaps that makes sense. I am the site most similar to myself. It also listed LIS Feeds, which is correct. It listed NationMaster.com, but I had quoted them in a recent post about themselves, taking their “about us” paragraph from the first page. And it listed a few sites that had quoted that same paragraph. So, it’s really just looking for duplicate content on various pages…it goes both ways. So, 1 out of 7 was actually a site that was using (in this case feeding) my content. I guess that’s useful, as long as you know what the site is actually giving you.

Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the link