The services offered range from a comparison of manuscripts across classes or universities, to detecting material cut and pasted from the Internet. A report of the findings is returned via the e-mail, with an anticipated turnaround time of up to 24 hours. A Content Analysis, which details the number of sources that matched those of the uploaded document and a Similar Links guide for directing users to the appropriate sites. Documents are returned with matched sentences and phrases underlined. Eve detects material cut and pasted from the Internet.
Files are uploaded and an advanced search is performed.
The process takes about twenty minutes and a report is generated, which details the percentage of the document found to match material on the web. Eve underlines the matched material and gives the relevant web-site addresses. Eve2 is quick and seems effective at finding text from sites indexed by the main search engines, but doesn't have an option to search propriety database collections. Its main application is in finding instances of plagiarism in programming assignments.