I habitually check my logs, mainly because I'm very interested in who
comes to read this site and how they get here. I enjoy seeing some of
the articles I've written, like the taglib tutorial
be of use to people and I like to see what google (and yahoo, etc.)
queries bring folks here.
So today I discovered the existence of copyscape.com. It has a google-style
interface for scanning the web looking for plagiarized pages. This kind
of disturbs me... not that I feel everything on the web should be up
for grabs but I do think sharing's important (else, I wouldn't CC license
this site by default). But the fact that people actually wrote a site
to find 'em, well it seems kind of kooky to me.
What really bugged me until I duplicated the query, was that someone had
hit my site, after visiting that search engine. I sure as hell wasn't copying
anyones site. So, why in the world was I showing up as a "copy" for some
random xanga blog? As it turns out, my little yahoo results box for my
site status page picked up a shut-down xanga blog. Which, apparently is enough
to make this dumb copyscape site pick me up in its listings
for a different shut-down xanga blog.
Real classy guys. Why not show google cache pages while you're at it. :-P
