Text uniqueness, using google or something else

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Hi, i've some long texts. do you know if it's possible to check if a given text is already on the web? maybe with a % of similarity. For example a text which is >75% similar with another on the web isn't unique. Any advice?

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Xdmx Xdmx wrote:

Hi, i've some long texts. do you know if it's possible to check if a given text is already on the web? maybe with a % of similarity. For example a text which is >75% similar with another on the web isn't unique. Any advice?

Anyone? :frowning:

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This is not a simple problem, but there are some companies trying to solve it: