Comments on: FairShare: Tracking Who Is Reusing Your Content

By: qarla

qarla — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:05:47 +0000

Thanks! my site is always victimized by copy cats!

By: Drisk

Drisk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:42:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I going to use! I think it will be useful.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:06:10 +0000

@James,

I would be interested in any comparisons you've done between the two free services. Copygator looks like an interesting tool for monitoring future blog posts only – what FairShare offers is coverage across the entire Web (not just blogs), the ability to see each page that has been reused, quick highlighting of any pages that don't match your Creative Commons license and support of 10 different languages.

In our tests, FairShare has resulted in much better coverage, and I encourage anyone considering to test both services and see for themselves – they are both free!

By: James S

James S — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:00:05 +0000

I personally use the http://www.copygator.com website over fairshare: 1. it's automated and brings me results instead of me searching for duplicated content. All i had to do was submit my feed and it started monitoring my feed showing me who's republished my articles on the web. 2. i get notified by email so it contacts me when it finds copies of my articles online. 3. i use their image badge feature to alert me directly on my website when my content is being lifted. 4. it's a free service and doesn't require registration.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:49:01 +0000

Rich – got it and set it up.

By: ZuDfunck

ZuDfunck — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:05:46 +0000

This is a double edged sword for me.

Since most of my posts are samplings from around the intranet I may get in trouble sooner!

Yikes

Like Stevie Nicks sings:

"I don't really want to Know"

ZuD

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:01:43 +0000

@dennis I sent you an invite. Please let me know if you didn't get it. We've benchmarked against CopyScape several times and performed very well; of course interested in your experience as this will be the true test.

@Danielle You can add up to 5 feeds right now. The main purpose of the limit is to curb abuse so this number may fluctuate or go away.

feel free to drop me a line directly at rich@fairshare.cc if you have questions

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:50:52 +0000

Thanks for this. I'm very curious to see what it can do. Now if it has an option for multiple blogs – that would be great!

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:40:29 +0000

I just signed up, so we shall see.

By: Deborah Dera

Deborah Dera — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:33:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I've never heard of this software but I'm going to go check it out!

By: Billy Mabray

Billy Mabray — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:11:04 +0000

@Dennis: I haven't used Copyscape, so I couldn't say. As for the invite, I signed up on the FairShare site and had an invite a couple hours later. Don't know if that's common, but it's worth a try.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:55:02 +0000

Two questions…

1. How does this compare to services such as Copyscape?

2. How do we get a beta invite?

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:14:04 +0000

Super – let me know if you run into any trouble. We're kicking around ways to make it a plug-in. Very interested in your thoughts.

By: Billy Mabray

Billy Mabray — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:23:51 +0000

@Rich: Yeah, I should have mentioned it was free. Just got my beta invite, btw. Looking forward to trying it out.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Thanks Billy – defintiely interested in feedback from you and your readers. We're rolling out releases every few weeks and relying on user input to drive where we take this.

btw, one point that everyone will hopefully appreciate: FairShare is free!