Spidering for copyright violation

Anonymous

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Mar 24, 2002
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I have invested time in putting together a text document that I have openly shared with an online community. Now I believe that someone might be claiming authorship of my work. Searching for a string on google provides the expected hits but my nemesis would not be actively seeking a place in a search engine.

Could I create (or download) a spider that would search for a specific string and merely report the URL back to me when found?

I'm aware of the philosophical issue about open source, and my having freely placed it on the web. I'm specifically interested in the mechanics of searching web sites for the contents of text files.

Thanks

CleverOne