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I've been writing articles for e-zines for several months. Recently I received a tool that was supposed to "help me write unique articles." I must say that it has, but not in the manner the programmer intended.
The premise of this tool is that you type in a phrase, the program searches the internet for instances it has been used and downloads sentences. To "create" a "unique" article, you arrange these sentences in logical order and post them as your own. Yes, references are given.
Do these people know how much time and research I put into each article I write? How careful I am with wording, grammar and spelling? How dangerous taking one sentence out of context can be when dealing with subjects like herbal remedies?
Then there's the whole copyright issue. Yeah, somewhere at the end of the article and after a ton of ads, there's a URL that goes to the original article, but...
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