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[Hans Zaunere]

> Hi Friends,

Hi,

> I am developing blogger website using PHP & MySQL. And, I would like
> add the feature of Plagiarism Checker.
> 
> If any one posted an article in my website, that article must be unique
> and original.
> 
> Could you please tell / suggest me how to develop Plagiarism Checker
> feature or send some useful articles / free APIs and so on.

Hmm, I think there is a recursion problem here - if we tell you, then you'd
be plagiarizing our solution :)

> Expecting your positive reply ......

Seriously though, unless I'm missing something, I can't see how this would
be possible.  I suppose you could use techniques such as comparing the
number of similar words between articles, but that's not really exact, and
likely to have incorrect results.  Plus, you're looking to do this
plagiarism check across the whole Internet?

Even humans, who read different articles, have a hard time determining if
something is actually plagiarized or not - I think doing it automatically is
nearly impossible.

H