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A new plagiarism detection service says that it can help track down copied text on the Internet—but it is any better than a search engine? We put it to the test with some of our own content.

Plagium is simple to use: enter text into a box and hit the “track plagiarisms” button. Site operator Septet Systems says that Plagium uses “Septet’s proprietary TX Miner engine, which employs advanced search technology for deep mining of documents on the public World Wide Web or within private repositories,” but the actual search results are generated with the Yahoo Search API.

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