Odds are that you’ve heard of word substitution as a way to rework other people’s articles. And if you have, the odds are that you’ve heard this sort of caper can produce nonsense.

Want to see an example?

Somebody out there is using a synonymizer (is there such a word? well, there is now)… a bit of dumb software that replaces individual words or expressions with what are supposed to be synonyms, words with the same meaning.

And the result is first rate garbage.

My original article is shown in bold below, with his garbled version under that in italics… paragraph by paragraph. Some of the most weird bits of mangled English are underlined so you dont miss ‘em. (more…)

One of the changes I’ve made here at http://GaryHarvey.net is to remove the autoblogging plugin that I was using. Actually there were TWO autoblogging processes at work here and I will post a few details here for those of you who are interested in automatic blogging.

Yes, I still use these tools on some of my other web properties. But not here, not any more.

1) Unique Article Wizard (more…)