Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ArticleBot is a
content generator, which can produce many new, original, articles out of
any given article. It does so by permutating words to their synonymous.
Thus, it could change the sentence "The dog is next to the house" to
"The puppy is near the building". By copying articles and converting
them in such a way, it is possible to quickly generate plenty of
original content. For that reason, it has angered webmasters and
bloggers, afraid that the application will be used to copy their
contents in an undetectable way. It is believed it may also be used for
search engine optimization since search engines will not be able to
detect the copied content and exclude it from their index. Jonathan
Bailey, of plagiarismtoday.com, however notes that the application is
very difficult to configure and the produced content sounds like it has
been written by somebody with a poor command of English. ArticleBot is
also suspected to be spying on its users and to be sending a copy of
every created project to articlebot.com.
