{"id":93465,"date":"2016-05-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=93465"},"modified":"2019-03-13T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:03:07","slug":"20160516-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160516-00\/?p=93465","title":{"rendered":"Wow, that article sounds an awful lot like something I would have writt&#8230; hey, wait a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A customer (via their customer liaison) had a question about the meaning of the lock overlay icon. Another colleague responded with <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thewindowsclub.com\/the-overlay-icons-in-windows-7\" REL=\"nofollow\"> a link to a site that contained an explanation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I read the linked article and thought to myself, &#8220;Wow, that article sounds an awful lot like something I would have written.&#8221; The style of the writing is similar to mine, and the phrases &#8220;Given the changes in how people use computers&#8221;, &#8220;visual clutter&#8221;, and &#8220;the value &#8230; diminishes&#8221; particularly struck me. <\/p>\n<p>And it turns out the reason it sounded so familiar was that in fact <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091209-00\/?p=15723\">was something I had written<\/a>. I wrote my article in 2009, and the plagiarized article came out in 2010. <\/p>\n<p>My colleague apologized. &#8220;I realized that I should have searched your blog first. The link I posted was the leading search result on both Bing and Google.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Great. My original content loses to the site that scrapes my content. I must be doing this wrong. <\/p>\n<p>(This was before they migrated the blog to the new server, so don&#8217;t blame the migration for the poor search ranking.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deja vu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-93465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Deja vu.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}