New eBook Search Engine Launched – For PDFs
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For any website that gets as much traffic as Wikipedia, the temptation is great to use it for scurrilous purposes, such as search-engine optimization or even simply plugging things for money. The...
View ArticleA Golden Age of Digital Plagiarism Checking
PaidContent has an interesting piece on another plagiarism kerfuffle in the news lately, as a columnist from one newspaper used verbatim quotes from someone else without crediting them for it, and the...
View ArticleNew eBook Search Engine Launched – For PDFs
A press release came across my desk today, and after I got over the fit of giggles I realized that the site mentioned did serve a purpose and was worth a post. The site is called PDF SB, and it's a...
View ArticleTwo Wikipedia Admins Caught in Paid PR Conflict of Interest
For any website that gets as much traffic as Wikipedia, the temptation is great to use it for scurrilous purposes, such as search-engine optimization or even simply plugging things for money. The...
View ArticleA Golden Age of Digital Plagiarism Checking
PaidContent has an interesting piece on another plagiarism kerfuffle in the news lately, as a columnist from one newspaper used verbatim quotes from someone else without crediting them for it, and the...
View ArticleGerman Publishers Sue Google, Demand Google Pay for Giving them Free Advertising
Not satisfied with simply getting free advertising from search engines like Google, media companies in one country after another have tried time after time to force Google to pay for all the visitors...
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