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Ask HN: How does one implement web plagiarism?

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Ask HN: How does one implement web plagiarism?

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I am really curious around how some plagiarism tell whether a code/text was copied from the internet or not.

I understand the tokenization part for matching the code to find similarity but do these plagiarism tools actually do web crawl or do they do a huge web crawl and store the results in some kind of db