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Test 2010: S10-32 The Plagiarism Checker Free

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Software Profile

ID S10-32
Product The Plagiarism Checker Free
Company Brian Klug seems to be an alumnus of the University of Maryland.
Web Site http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker
Software Type Online
Costs free
Test Date 2010-09-02

Testoverview

Ranking for all tests: 12
Ranking for tests 10-40: 14
Ranking for tests 31-40: 15
Usability: 7
Professionalism 14
Middle Ranking 12,4
Effectiveness (Grade): D+
Overall Ranking: 13

barely useful


Summary

The Plagiarism Checker (Free / Premium) is another new system in our tests. It is offered by the University of Maryland. We tested both the free and the premium version (8$/month), strangely enough, the free version was slightly better than the premium version. It does not quantify the plagiarism, but notes “possible plagiarism”. When you click on the link, you are given the Google or the Yahoo page with the search results (we used the default, Google). There is no side-by-side reporting done, so it is really not clear what this system does, beside selecting the sample. We were not successful in contacting anyone responsible for the system, our emails were consistently returned with “temporarily local problem please try later”. The overall effectiveness was 56%, resulting in a D grade.


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Screenshots

Screenshot 1: homepage

Screenshot 2: results


Business Promotion

“This free plagiarism detector will find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports.”


Links

official website http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker