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Software that can show news publishers if, and where, their content has been copied online has been launched. Called Attributor, the program, designed by a California start-up of the same name, has been tested by AP and Reuters for the last six months. Reuters began using it for real in September. The software looks for big …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    The Reg is doomed!!!!!

    If it weren't for the unsuitable apostrophe's, grammer and spelling dodgy.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Supprised google dont already do this as an extension of there news whoring

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Called+Attributor%22&meta=

    there done - can I have my VC wedge now please :).

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Does that mean...

    ...that El Reg will have to stop lifting stories from the BBC and publishing them a few hours later...?

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  4. Snert Lee

    It means...

    ...That, in about a years time, most news aggregator sites will have embraced the same grammar and spelling in vogue amongst Viagra spammers.

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    @Snert Lee

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    I like it.

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  6. Ian

    Link?

    "The Reg is doomed!!!!! "

    "If it weren't for the unsuitable apostrophe's, grammer and spelling dodgy."

    Anyone else think there might be a link between these quotes?

    "...That, in about a years time, most news aggregator sites will have embraced the same grammar and spelling in vogue amongst Viagra spammers."

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    @Christopher P Martin

    ...or a few days later, in the case of the congestion charge-dodging story, for instance.

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  8. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    What was that ?

    "It also checks (...) how many visitors the site gets"

    Um, by the way, has this page count issue been finally resolved in a scientifically-approved manner ?

    Or are page counts still an art of approximation and ego-inflation ?

    Because if they are still imprecise, then somebody is going to be bothered for more than he's worth.

    Not really fair, is it ?

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