Would anyone happen to know whether this plagiarism detect site is reliable?

Question

This is the site: http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/

It detects the percentage of plagiarism, however I find it to be a bit unreliable as any word combinations, whether its from sites that do not contain information relevant to a research assignment just completed, it still classifies this as plagiarism. Word combinations from other sites is just a mere conincidence!! I recently did a research assignment, and 34% plagiarised according to this! But some sites it displayed I never even used.

I would like to know if any other uses this site, and what are your opinions of it?

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

never heard of it , I use turnitin.com

Answer 2

i agree with anisia, use turnitin.com. i'm currently using it to check for plagiarism in my extended essay for IB.

Answer 3

If I may digress a bit from your question. One aspect of plagiarism that has always amazed me is that despite the fact that academic plagiarsim and collusion are heavily frowned upon, and in fact capable of destroying one's academic future, apparently no such prohibition exists in the business world. Let's look at advertising and product graphics. For starters, did you ever wonder about the similarity between Starbucks' emblem and a Heineken label? I did. The movie, "Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery," actually did a spoof on this "coincidence" as a group of people hoisted their Heinekens in a Starbucks against the backdrop of the Starbuck's logo. Or how about the Budwesier advertising program of a few years back that "borrowed" the Campbell's soup logo? Did you notice how fast it took Comcast and AT&T to filch the little phone, internet, and television icons Cavalier Telecom first used in its phenomenonly successful C2 promotion? There are many more examples and I'm not just talking about patents. Packages and advertising media copy significant amounts of graphics styles, etc. from competitors all the time. A short walk down the aisle in a grocery store will confirm this to you. I had a marketing professor who gave the class a big speech about plagiarism when he went over the class syllabus. When I asked him about these aforementioned lapses of the same among major corporations he went speechless and just glared at me. Yes, plagiarism is a funny thing. But once you get out of school it's about "doing what it takes." Apparently.