Help me catch the online content thieves.

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:29:32 -0800

Is there a good online plagiarism tool that will work for writing that isn't term papers? It's for online content that I suspect was stolen word for word from other sources without citation. Anonymous because it's work related. I was hired to by the online branch of a retail firm to spruce up some blog content they had produced primarily for SEO purposes. A lot of it was poorly written and made some excessive claims about the products, so they wanted me to make it all conform to the house tone and style and soften the claims.

About halfway through the project, while fact-checking something, I discovered that a significant chunk of the text had been lifted directly from another website. Further random poking around found numerous other examples. It appears to come primarily from other corporate websites and low quality impersonal blogs (the kind that probably function just for SEO purposes themselves).

I can't search every sentence of every article, but I need to figure how much of any given piece is original. Is there an effective tool (preferably free, but I'm less picky every minute this goes on) for detecting stolen content that works like the paper plagiarism checkers teachers use?

Wanna-be web editor freelance ISO clued-up financial guru.

electriccynic — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:12:57 -0800

How much should I quote for a daily rate working freelance as a web content editor? I've been asked for a daily rate as a web editor working for a London-based major company's huge "intranet". How much should I quote as a daily rate?

Bonus points for those who can also suggest cheap places to stay, ideally with wi-fi.

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Help me catch the online content thieves.

Wanna-be web editor freelance ISO clued-up financial guru.