[1] Commenters suggested this might provide competition for leading plagiarism detection company, Turnitin.

Organizations can choose from a variety of options and create multiple administrators and groups, for example, to divide different departments within one institution.

Business users employ the software to improve SEO rankings or secure the proper usage of copyright material.

[7] PlagScan's two-step algorithm was developed in 2008, and compares submissions with millions of web sources and internal archives that users can optionally participate in.

[12] The program allegedly reported a 0.96%[13] match when run by the Spanish Government, however those figures were later corrected by PlagScan CEO, Markus Goldbach to be 21% with the default configuration.

The company replied "After applying the software internally – using the default settings and no filters – PlagScan cannot confirm this number.

In order to receive a 0.96 percent result, one must have applied specific settings and actively disqualified sources.

PlagScan has reached out to the Moncloa in order to gain an insight on the government’s procedure and methodology.