Here is a nifty tool called Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search which is powered by GoogleAlert. All you need to do is enter the Url of one of your website pages and it will return any webpages that have copied in its entirety or just portions of your pages (and vice-versa). As long as Google has indexed a page which may contain parts of your work within in it, this tool will sniff it out.
I thought I would put it to the test. Rob at Binary Circus Media is using my feed, so it should show up on the report from this tool. I ran my news page through the tool -- http://www.webstractions.com/news/ -- and it brought back a screen full of links.
There are a number of articles on this page, ranging across a number of categories. It pretty much breaks the page down and finds snippets of the page pretty effectively. As suspected, Binary Circus was at the top of the list, plus one more site that is carrying my feed. Other items in the list are parts of the page that I quoted over at the Band of Gonzos web design forum, as well as items that I quoted from news articles or other forums. This tool works both ways I see. I found a couple of items that I was quoted for. In all cases though, my links (and theirs) are in tact -- author representation is maintained by linking back.
For a discusion on this tool, visit the Band of Gonzos Webmaster Community.
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