Someone graciously alerted me today about intellectual property of mine that
was pirated by a third party and used to promote an eBay listing. I can use
eBay's procedure for correcting this OK, but in the process I discovered that
neither my ISP nor the usual search services (e.g. Google or DuckDuckGo)
appear to have a mechanism that can be used to look for URL's in the eBay ads
so that I can find ones that have my website name in them. Consequently, all
I can do is search for items similar to my website's content and then scan
them for familiar images, or depend on the good will of my audience for
heads-up alerts.
eBay's affiliates program has a finding API which can be programmed to look
for URL's, but the last programming that I did was about 25 years ago.
Is there a libre way of searching the source code (i.e., the text of the
html) of webpages ? There appear to be several commercial sites that provide
such a service.
I can easily prove that plagiarism has occurred by doing a text search of
eBay (and other websites, of course) but the direct embedding of my website's
images in others' websites is inaccessible with the search methods that I'm
aware of.
My ISP has a so-called "webalizer" but that service has stopped showing
referring links from eBay ads.
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