find plagiarized original online

Plagiarism checkers tell you things like "high likelihood of unoriginal content." Is there any way/program/site to actually find the original version of a plagiarized text? It could be a commercial version, but free is preferred, thanks :

I'm not that familiar with them, having only seen a handful of reports sent by clients who'd been ripped off by various companies and writers; but the ones I saw definitely displayed the original source documents along with the url and all the plagiarized text highlighted.

turnitin

Academic paper plagiarism checker from smallseotools?

Has anyone used the website: smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ to check papers for plagiarism? If so, is it anything like turnitin?

Honestly, this looks good. However, I am skeptical of it being more a marketplace than a text-matching algorithm. An established company at least has some corporate responsibilities for what they do.

Second, are we talking about plagiarism check or similarity-index? Hope you know the difference between the two.

I use PlagiarismcheckerX to check for plagiarism. It is better than Smallseotool

MeoKhan, could you elaborate on these two things? I'm wholly unfamiliar with both.

Plagiarism checkers often kick in and flag a quote if the said portion is more than 3 lines long. This is something that I learned as the company I previously worked for started rolling out their "plagiarism checker" service with every original paper written for a client. I discovered that the best way to avoid being flagged was to keep the quotes down to 2 lines at the most. I then relied more on paraphrasing the quotes, adding more explanations in my own words, and then simply citing the source after my explanation. When the program does not have too much of the original text to compare to its database, the citations are not normally seen as being plagiarized. As was mentioned previously, these plagiarism checkers normally send the url of the perceived original source along with the report. What makes that laughable is sometimes, the checker returns more than 3 "original" sources of the flagged text. Which means that the text cited is widely used so the original source of the text is already difficult to trace. If you want to avoid getting flagged, it is best to paraphrase the text and limit the use of original quotes in any paper that you are writing.

Plagiarism checkers normally indicate where the supposed original source of the text is from as part of the report. For every detected sentence or paragraph, the report contains the assumed percentage of plagiarism and a link to the original source. From my experience though, the original source that the plagiarism cites isn't really the original source at all since it refers the student to another student who wrote a similar report or posted the same quote in a blog. It doesn't matter to the plagiarism checker that my source of the material was the original printed material because it relies on a "first search return" basis for its plagiarism detection.

I more than once had to defend my citations and paraphrased explanations to a student who insisted that his plagiarism checker indicated that I copied and pasted from a blog. Luckily, I never use materials that do not come from journals, books, e-books, or academically acceptable websites. The fact that I linked to these academic sources always saved me the bother of having to refund an order when I was placed in such a situation.

Never trust plagiarism checkers. It's a lazy professor's way of doing his job. It isn't accurate and should never be taken as the gospel truth when reading a student's research submission.

This is spot on. Turnitin is the best checker, but of course, it can only be used at the time the paper is turned in (unless you pay for a subscription outside of work/school). Still, checkers are notorious for flagging common phrases and even worse for claiming a paper is plagiarized because it contains the same headers as other papers (which is often the case as students are doing the same assignment with the same questions and/or requirements). Using a program like Grammarly is okay for double-checking your writing style, but for an actual plagiarism check, it is quite unreliable. Nothing can take the place of simply citing properly, keeping direct quotes to a minimum, and double-checking your work and then checking again. We're all human and when we've been immersed in a project, it's easy to overlook the same mistake several times. During the writing process, our brain becomes conditioned to what we are thinking and not necessarily what we write. As such, if you meant to write "I will go" and, instead, wrote "I will got", your brain may be seeing "got" as "go". Worse, spellcheckers most likely won't catch "got" either because it's a valid word.

Also, time generally won't allow for busy freelancers, but if you can have someone else (a new set of eyes) proof for you, that's a plus!

I previously used Grammarly to check for possible plagiarism points in the client orders. Only upon the client's insistence. It is my personal and company policy never to check for plagiarism as it is important to avoid presubmitting the essay to a database. It could affect the final outcome of the submission. Anywa, Grammarly would often list the possible plagiarized points and then list the url of the blog, site, journal, or book where it might have come from / where it was originally published. What I would then do is change my source reference to the one that was listed to avoid plagiarism questions. It normally worked out fine for both the client and I.

You can actually use AI more effectively to track down the plagiarized sections far better than if you used a plagiarism checker. Since AI does a sweep of the internet sources, you will receive a copy of each instance that the plagiarized text appears on the web. The problem, is the AI cannot discern which of those is the true original source of the document. That s the same problem that the plagiarism checkers had before. Apparently technology cannot fix that problem that easily.

How is this different from what traditional plagiarism scanners do? The plagiarism scans that I've seen also identified exactly where the flagged text appears, as well as the exact date that the original source was first uploaded, in some cases, depending on the type of source involved.