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Google Banning Plagiarism Ads
May 23, 2007 |
Google’s forthcoming ban on adverts for “academic paper-writing services and the sale of pre-written essays, theses, and dissertations” means that essay websites join a blacklist of “unacceptable content” including adverts for weapons, prostitution, drugs, tobacco, fake documents and “miracle cures”.
The move has been applauded by universities which have struggled with the problem of students dishonestly submitting material copied from the internet.
Well, let me be the cynical college teacher here: my students are not clicking on ads to get their essays - they rely on the search results. This move by Google will make no difference whatsoever. There is only one good defense against plagiarism: a teacher who makes the content of the class relevant enough so that students don’t want to plagiarize.
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