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Plagiarism + Wikipedia = One Million Dollars

November 6, 2006 · Filed Under Web Application & Review
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I love Wikipedia and I have to admit that it does contain lots of articles plagiarize from somewhere. We’ve seen how people started suing YouTube after Google acquire it for USD1.6 billion – yes, Google bought them self a handful of lawsuits together with YouTube. According to the founder of Wikipedia, if they were to insert Google Adsense into Wikipedia, their profit monthly would be around USD1 million. Hopefully they do and with these extra cash, they are able to hire a few more person to monitor Wikipedia to make it a better place.

Daniel Brandt found the examples of suspected plagiarism at Wikipedia using a program he created to run a few sentences from about 12,000 articles against Google’s search engine. He removed matches in which another site appeared to be copying from Wikipedia and examples in which material is in the public domain and was properly attributed.