{"id":926,"date":"2008-07-26T20:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/26\/926\/"},"modified":"2008-08-09T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T15:33:04","slug":"urlinfo-beta-fagan-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/26\/926\/","title":{"rendered":"URLinfo gets plaigarized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/urlinfo\/\">URLinfo beta || Fagan Finder<\/a> &#8211; URLinfo is a tool I built years ago. It was first called &#8220;Site Specific&#8221; when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/site\/news1.shtml\">put it up<\/a> on on October 1, 2001 (see a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20011128061419\/http:\/\/www.fagan.f2s.com\/misc\/site.shtml\">November cache<\/a>), finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/urlinfo\/changes\/\">rebranding<\/a> it as URLinfo during August 2004. I last updated it on October 2004, which unfortunately means that although an excellent tool in theory, it needs some updates to be as useful once again.<\/p>\n<p>URLinfo isn&#8217;t totally unique, I have seen a variety of other tools do something similar (such as Firefox extensions), but nothing as comprehensive, or done in exactly the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, today, via <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/?new\">del.icio.us popular<\/a> I find http:\/\/url-info.appspot.com\/ . I&#8217;m not linking to it, because I don&#8217;t think they deserve that. Now, URLinfo is a name someone else could come up with themselves. Even with the same spelling. Even for a similar tool. Of course, the fact that the actual text of their home page is partly copied off of my URLinfo&#8217;s homepage pretty much eliminates the coincidence aspect. Not to mention their equally prominent mention of bookmarlets, although of course they aren&#8217;t as cool as mine \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>If this was a site by another name, and without blatanly copying mine, I would say &#8220;nice effort&#8221; and bookmark it. So, loyal readers (all two of you)&#8230; what should I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URLinfo beta || Fagan Finder &#8211; URLinfo is a tool I built years ago. It was first called &#8220;Site Specific&#8221; when I put it up on on October 1, 2001 (see a November cache), finally rebranding it as URLinfo during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/26\/926\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,371],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-plaigarism","tag-urlinfo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}