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EVE is a powerful tool designed to combat the growing problem of
internet plagiarism. EVE accepts essays in plain text format and returns links to web pages from which a student may have plagiarized. EVE has been developed to be powerful enough to find
plagiarized material while not overwhelming the professor with false links. Try EVE by giving it an essay in plain text (.txt) format. Next, find some similar material on the web, copy a couple of paragraphs into the essay, and give the new essay to EVE.

EVE performs a large number of complex searches to find material from any Internet site. While it would be technically impossible with today's technology to build a program that could check every web site on the entire Internet, EVE2 comes as close as possible by employing the most advanced searching tools available to locate suspect sites. Not only does it find these suspect sites, but it then does a direct comparison of the submitted essay to the text appearing on the suspect site. If it finds evidence of plagiarism, the URL is recorded. Once the search has completed, the teacher is given a full report on each paper that contained plagiarism, including the percent of the essay plagiarized, and an annotated copy of the paper showing all plagiarism highlighted in red.