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Is it possible to detect rewritten content?

by felixcohen
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For easy scenario, is it possible to detect rewritten content that was spun only on word level i.e without rearrangement of paragraphs and sentences?

If it's not yet possible then I won't ask about complex scenario where content is spun on all 3 levels.
#content #detect #rewritten
  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    You can run material through Copyscape for plagiarism but I doubt it could detect something that has been rewritten to 100%.
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  • Profile picture of the author blueclcl
    Never heard of re-written checks but definitely is for copy content.
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  • Profile picture of the author kenblock
    Copying large blocks of your content into Google may reveal similar content. If Google can't find it the chances you have are slim.
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    • Profile picture of the author felixcohen
      Originally Posted by kenblock View Post

      Copying large blocks of your content into Google may reveal similar content. If Google can't find it the chances you have are slim.
      This one is interesting because if meant copying without quotes then what Google would do is present results that closely match layout of block you use to search with and you will see words that partly match being bolded.

      I think Google has potential to detect rewritten content on a word level by comparing layout of original with one that is searched and taking into about proximity of matched words.
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  • Profile picture of the author mohsinmallik
    There are different Plagiarism Checker but I don't know of any site or service which will check for rewritten contents.
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  • Profile picture of the author garmahis
    The whole reason content is getting rewritten is to avoid detection either by Google or copyright owners
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    • Profile picture of the author felixcohen
      The whole reason I asked this question is to detect whether I have gotten unique content with different idea from content provider or rewritten content with same idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Levanduski
    IF someone simply spun content at the world level it will sound awkward to read. If they manually rewrote it, it will sound good and be basically undetectable (at least as far as I know).
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
    Is it possible to detect rewritten content?
    Yeah, if it reads like crap. There are plenty of tools that can check for duplicate content, but the tools get duped itself most of the time. The tools don't check for readability, only human eyes can detect it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnRyserson
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    If they rewrote it word for word and ended up with entire new sentences and paragraphs then you won't be able to detect it unless you already know the source they are using.

    Google will look at a word for word rewritten article as 100% unique and rank it accordingly.

    Taking an article and rewriting it in your own words is very old strategy and effective to producing unique articles online.
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    • Profile picture of the author felixcohen
      Originally Posted by JohnRyserson View Post

      Taking article and rewriting it in your own words is very old strategy and effective to producing unique articles online.
      You are right about this one but I feel writer that was
      assigned to my article spun words while keeping the
      order of paragraphs of original article. One word can
      make sentence sounds awkward a bit. In current
      scenario I was able to locate original article but
      what if I couldn't?

      I can't just claim that author spun article. I need to
      prove this but without knowing source he used I can't
      prove much.
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  • Profile picture of the author dannyberk
    If by human eye it may not be...
    If by copyscape it is possible...

    If the content is re-written well (not just the re-arranged of words)
    then usually no, it can't be detected.
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  • Profile picture of the author BenPrelman
    I think if you change 100% of the text you're gonna be fine.
    If you didn't change all of it, plagiarism detectors such as Copyleaks: Copyleaks - Plagiarism and copyright infringement detector will find it.
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