The rapid dissemination of information over the Internet is undoubtedly beneficial for hundreds of millions of people across the globe but has proven to be a thorn for academic institutions and others who seek original, unadulterated content. Plagiarism is now more of an issue than ever before and institutions are seeking fool-proof mechanisms to weed out content that is copied from other sources and presented as original work.
A recent startup selected for incubation by Plan X is Plagiarism Checker X, which states its vision to “develop the most reliable, innovative and standardized plagiarism detection applications for the global market.” Originally incorporated in Delaware, US by Rashid Ali in January last year, the technology startup has a contact office in New York, whilst its operations are conducted from Lahore, Pakistan. The software solution helps students, teachers, researchers, bloggers, publishers and SEO experts by checking for duplication issues.
Plagiarism Checker X has been met with significant success so far, in the past one year it had 50,000 downloads and the company wishes to use its incubation time to further hone its strategy and software in order to appeal to a wider pool of users.
The trial version of their software offers a number of free features too. First up is online plagiarism detection which scans a document and cross verifies the content with search results on the Internet. If any content is replicated then the report with highlight that part in red as well as giving the source URL for further examination.
The second feature is a “Side by Side Comparison” which allows you to check two separate documents in relation to each other, which is a useful tool if someone feels that two pieces of content are inherently similar to one another. This option also allows you to check bulk documents, so it is not restrictive in any manner. At the end of the test, a comprehensive report and summary is included which is useful for further analysis and investigation.
It will be interesting to see if the startup can gain any ground will industry giants like Turnitin already being the de facto standard for plagiarism checking.
download link????
Dear Students
Samajh to gai ho ga aap log :P
a night mare for students
Will it be ironic if people start pirating/cracking Plagiarism checker software??
great effort!
I constantly use these tools to check my students work. The best thing about Plagiarism Checher X is it’s consistency rate, price and content privacy clause!
I hope they don’t raise their lifetime license price after popularity!