Help determine the quality of the article

by bolan

Posted: 9 years ago 15 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi, All.
I ordered a news article for the test. My native language is not English. Help determine the quality of the article.

Google Apps Bug Reveals Personal Details of Over 280,000 Domain Owners

There was a glitch in Google Apps domain renewal system and that resulted in Google leaking personal information of more than 280,000 protected domains. The names, email and phone number of 282,867 Google Apps domain owners have been revealed even after they had chosen to keep their personal information private.

New domains can be acquired by Google Apps users from eNom, GoDaddy and others who are third party registrars of the popular giant search engine. The domain owners are able to hide their personal data called 'WHOIS' data on the internet through paid services offered by these third party registrars.

The physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and name of the registrants are the information that is contained in the WHOIS data. This data can turn out to be easy access for identity thieves and spammers and this is the reason why domain owners use privacy protection services to lock their personal information.

eNom is the culprit here as its privacy protection service was removed in the mid of 2013 when the domains were renewed. This meant that the registration details of the domain owners were available for public viewing in the WHOIS directory.

Cisco has come out with a report that about 94% of the Google Apps domain users use eNom and this issue was first highlighted by Cisco researchers in the middle of February this year. Google also had admitted to the leak of personal information of domain owners by the end of February and they have also notified the customers affected by this bug on March 12.

Google has said that the error had occurred due to a software defect seen in the Google Apps domain renewal system. Google has looked into this grave situation and have said that they have restored the privacy settings now.

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sophuk 9 years ago

The article is fine, but what did you pay for it ?
There are plenty of decent writers who could produce this article for $5-$6.

Have you checked it on Copyscape ?
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bolan 9 years ago

Thanks, sophuk.
yes checked, copyscape its ok. Pay for it $0.7 per 100 words (ordering daily 600-1000 words for a long time)
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Lightlysalted 9 years ago

Yep visit Copyscape Plagiarism Checker - Duplicate Content Detection Software to make sure it's an original article. There are some excellent witers here at WF, my suggestion would be to go an check out the forums here for a good quality writer in future to save you some money
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Slade556 9 years ago

The article is ok, not too many grammar errors, it's written in proper English (I've seen much worse), and if it's not copied from anywhere then it's an OK article.
It's not a really great article though, but you paid about $2 for it, right? (it's about 300 words, per $0.7, correct?)
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- bolan 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Slade556
  
  It's not a really great article though, but you paid about $2 for it, right? (it's about 300 words, per $0.7, correct?)
  
  That's right, $2 per article 300 words
  
  Provided articles are readable, make sense and flow then they are fine to use on a blog or a site.
  
  I will post articles on the site softgid.com
  
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  sophuk 9 years ago
  
  Provided articles are readable, make sense and flow then they are fine to use on a blog or a site.
  You're never going to get magazine quality articles for $5, but provided it's interesting to the reader and not gibberish, then this quality is passable.
  
  I always run mine through Copyscape Pro just to double check they are unique.
  
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  Kay King 9 years ago
  
  You are getting 'opinions' that make no sense from people who could not have written this article themselves.
  
  I ran it through Copyscape premium - no problem. As a new article, I think it's quite good and more than worth what you paid for it.
  
  I am a writer - and had I written that article you would have paid a lot more for it. I don't know why others are commenting in a negative way - perhaps they have something of their own to promote but I wouldn't pay much attention to the naysayers in this thread.
  
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rmacklyn 9 years ago

What exactly quality means? I believe that any article that is readable and easy to understand by readers makes a good article. And one tool that I preferably use for the same aspect is hemmingwayapp. Copy and paste your article in the text box there of and you will come up with suggestions and ideas what needs to be tweaked for the easy reading and understanding of the article.
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onSubie 9 years ago

I would say it is below average quality with room for corrections. But for $2 it is not bad.

There was a glitch in Google Apps domain renewal system ~~and~~ that resulted in Google leaking the personal information of more than 280,000 protected domains.

Bad grammar.

The names, email addresses and phone numbers of 282,867 Google Apps domain owners have been revealed...

Improper pluralisation.

The physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and names of the registrants are the information that is contained in the WHOIS data.

"...are the information that is contained..." ???

There are errors throughout but these are examples. Not bad for $2 but it hurts the head to read.
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- emmerson 9 years ago
  
  Fully agree with Kay King on this one, for $2 and passing copyscape, this is excellent, it is not particularly compelling but it gets the job done and the grammatical errors are a none issues unless its going to be posted on a English comprehension website. I've seen grammatical / typo errors on best selling books.
  
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  Kay King 9 years ago
  
  oogle leaking the personal information of more than 280,000 protected domains.
  
  that is not incorrect - can be used either way
  
  The second one is also not clearly incorrect - that's nitpicking and I have to wonder why you feel it necessary.
  
  One of the worst things non-writers do is add as many "little words" as they can and muddy up articles.
  
  I always wonder why people get such joy from picking apart a good piece of writing. I stopped writing for a client who paid me $30-50 per article and then "edited" by adding small words like "the", "and", "that" thinking he was "improving grammar".
  
  When he finished his "edits" the articles appeared written by an ESL writer - but HE was the one with English as a second language.
  
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  onSubie 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  that is not incorrect - can be used either way
  
  I really think the "and" in "and that resulted" is unnecessary in this context.
  
  "There was a glitch that resulted in..." vs. "There was a glitch and that resulted in..."
  
  I also think it should be either "the Google Apps renewal system" or "Google Apps' renewal system".
  
  It reads funny without either "the" to make the whole thing one object "The Google Apps Renewal System" or the possessive to separate the owner and the object "Google Apps' renewal system".
  
  The second one is also not clearly incorrect - that's nitpicking and I have to wonder why you feel it necessary.
  
  I may have been nitpicking on the first but the second is clearly an incorrect mixing of singulars and plurals..
  
  "The names, email and phone number of 282,867 Google Apps domain owners..."
  
  "Names" and "owners" are plural but "email" and "phone number" are singular.
  
  Either names should be singular to agree with email and phone or email and phone should be plural to agree with names but they shouldn't mix in the same sentence.
  
  I prefer to use the plural because "owners" is plural.
  
  "The name, email and phone number of 282,867 Google Apps domain owners..."
  
  "The names, emails and phone numbers of 282,867 Google Apps domain owners..."
  
  I also think "email addresses" is clearer than "emails" because they are two different things even though it is clear what is meant in context.
  
  One of the worst things non-writers do is add as many "little words" as they can and muddy up articles.
  
  That's why it is not a good idea to hire non-writers to write articles.
  
  I always wonder why people get such joy from picking apart a good piece of writing.
  
  Because that was the OP's request...
  
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talfighel 9 years ago

I have written 100's of articles over the years and have seen some good ones too by other marketers.

I really think that this article is of HIGH quality. No grammar errors and it seems like it was well written by someone professional.
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Raydal 9 years ago

If you paid $2 for this article then you robbed the writer. (EXCEPT the currency
conversion is the real incentive. )

It's sad to see writers lower themselves to this level. But it will continue happening
as there are people willing to work for next to nothing.

My short way of saying it is a well written article for the (low) price.

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David Keith 9 years ago

i am certainly no writer, but i do read a lot of articles online.

my take is that this is a well above average article. considering the cost, its an elite article for the money. i read many articles online by real publications with editors that are not as well done.

as a user, my "eye test" is whether or not an article like this feels as though it was written by a low end article writer or is it legit content probably written by someone with knowledge and experience on the subject.

it passes my "eye test" easily. i would never suspect this is an article that was straight out of an article mill.
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