Saturday, February 11, 2006

Announcing crossrefme!

We are currently creating a FREE service that determines the originality of documents. This service scours the millions of pages on the internet to determine if the contents of user submitted documents have already been published on the internet. This service could be used to ;
  • determine whether a given text has been correctly referenced
  • determine how original a given text is.
  • determine if someone has used your text without properly attributing it to you. etc
crossrefme is still in the prototype stage. I should begin rolling out a Beta version very soon.

4 comments:

Trevor Lovett said...

I'm trying to do something similar, as it seems Turnitin could be improved in a lot of ways (seems to produce a LOT of false positives).

I'm curious as to how you handle the number of search requests required to match phrases from the original document. Did you build your own index or is this simply hitting search engines? If the latter, how did you deal with rate-limiting?

Matt Willard said...

It would be really helpful if you'd display more prominently what the percentages on each page mean. Perhaps having an FAQ on the front page?

AL said...

@Matt Willard. Done

tjing.shen said...

Hi AL
How do you calculate the originality index?
Do you have a range of indication, e.g. below how many percent of originality index then it is not considered as original?
Thank you :)