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Google and Bing/Yahoo are not fans of people who copy content. This is because copying the work of another person without their permission is an infringement of their copyright. Google and Bing/Yahoo do not have the time to check to see who has permission to use some content and who does not, so they class most forms of duplication as bad (except for legitimate sharing). Google have also made it clear that they do not like duplicate content because it does not offer any use for the user. Copying the content of another person is no better than changing the front cover of a book and publishing it again. 

What Google would like to avoid is a situation when people search for something, they look at the first result and read it, and then look at the second search result and see that it is the same as the first. If this started happening on a regular basis then people would start using other search engines to find their results. That is why Google has a very low tolerance for duplicate content. Here are ten online tools you can use to check for online content, but they are in no particular order.

Similar-page-checker

From the world of uncreative tool naming comes “Similar-page-checker” allows you to see how closely your pages are similar to the pages of others. It scores you with a percentage on how similar your content is to another person’s.

Plagium

This is a plagiarism detector that allows you to run duplication checks online. It is a tool that uses an algorithm to check the words on your website against the words on another website. If they match in a certain pattern (or a lot) then it will alert you to the possible duplication.

Plagiarisma

Another tool with an uninspired name, this tool will check your content to see if it has been copied online. It is good at checking files other than web pages, such as documents files.

Duplicate-content

This will show you any issues it thinks you have with duplication and runs a duplication analysis. It shows you corrections and penalties for copying.

Articlechecker

This is another web paged duplication checker that focuses on large chunks of text. It runs a duplication check by searching for similar content line by line. You can scan a page of your website and see if anyone has copied it.

Dupefreepro

This is a plagiarism checker that will highlight if your website has any duplicate content or not. You run the duplicate checker and if another website has similar content to you then it will tell you and give you an idea of how much has been copied.

The Google search engine itself

This can check your content for you, just copy and paste a line or two into the search engine. You may get numerous results so try putting portions in quotation marks. You can check every three or four lines to see if another person has copied you.

Copyscape

This tool will allow you to check your website for plagiarism. You can run five free searches online to check to see if your web pages have been copied online by someone else. This tool also comes with other features. You can copy and paste some text into a box and run a check to see if it has been copied online. Or you can run a check on numerous documents to see if it has been copied. You can also set up a copySentry to alert you if your web content has suddenly been copied by another person.

The Yahoo/Bing search engine itself

You can do with Yahoo/Bing what you can do with Google. Every few lines you can take a bit of text and put it into the search engine. If you pick parts of the text that do not have punctuation then you may have more luck. If your words have been coped verbatim, then there is a chance that a search engine will show you it.

Duplichecker

This is actually a free tool that you can use to avoid a bit of plagiarism. You can check your web content with that of other websites. The limitation with this is that the website and web content has to have been crawled by Google, although this is the case with a lot of plagiarism tools.

Mozilla is off to a good start converting regular web users into web makers. Webmaker tools are a great resource for aspiring developer and designers who want to take the next big step in learning and building.

This post will take a brief look at three Mozilla Web Maker Tools, respectively Thimble, X-Ray Goggles, and Popcorn Maker. These three tools will allow you to learn how to code, inspect the codes of other already-built sites and produced mashup of videos.

Thimble’s editor is far from a traditional full-fledged editor. It has simple tools like the syntax hints helper, spell checker, preview and text sizes, probably a good tool for beginner-level designers and developers.

Thimble’s hints popup, another wonderful feature for beginners lets the user view some useful hints and information when editing or viewing a line of code or certain CSS/HTML element.

Thimble also makes it easy to publish your creations and share them with friends.

The publish feature gives you two links: one, for sharing with all your friends and followers and two, for editing published projects in the future. In the publish project popup there is also a tab to share your project on Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

X-Ray Goggles

To learn coding, sometimes you have to look at how other sites are coded. Mozilla Webmaker’s X-Ray Goggles, when activated, lets you inspect the code behind any web page anywhere from Hongkiat.com to your own blog.

It work’s basically like the browser’s inspect tool but with fewer features. Installing it is as easy as drag-an-dropping it into the browser’s bookmark bar. After you install it, you can use Goggles on whichever website you browse in the future.

To use Goggles, type in the URL of the website in which you would like to inspect. The default Goggles URL displays to you a basic webpage with an image embedded on it.

Goggles also has a handy built in editor so you can remix and adapt the webpage live in Goggles, and see the changes right before your eyes. Goggles also allows you to publish your remixed and created work in Goggles basically the same way that Thimble does. Just make sure the content you are remixing is not copyrighted.

Popcorn Maker

Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web media and video. Start it up, type in a video URL of HTML5, Youtube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud.

This is where the fun starts to happen; you can then remix the videos by adding elements and media features on your sidebar by dragging and dropping to the appropriate timeframe of the video