Are you worried that someone copied your website?

Nov 24, 2006 10:32 GMT  ·  By

There are many users who think that creating a webpage can be done very easily by stealing somebody's website or just using a template. They just don't think there are laws that defend owners and copying a site can cause them lawsuits and fines.

Are you curious if your site has been already copied? Well, there's a new service that allows you to find this important information called Copyscape.

"Copyscape is dedicated to defending your rights online, helping you fight against online plagiarism and content theft. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you," the owner describes the service.

"Copyscape's operations take up significant bandwidth and computation resources, so we are only able to provide a limited number of searches in the free service. If you would like to perform more than 20 searches for your website per month, sign up for Copyscape Premium, which allows thousands of searches per month.

You may see a message indicating that this limit has been reached even though you have not performed too many searches on a certain site - this simply means another person has already exceeded the limit for this site. In such a case, you may use Copyscape on another site, or sign up for a Premium account," it is also mentioned.