New Yeasir Translations Web Site

Apr 02 2008

New Yeasir Translations Web Site

Published by Jianjun at 8:33 pm under work

For several days I’ve been busy revamping my business web site Yeasir Translations. The present web site’s copy has long been a target of merciless plagiarists (read my article Fake Chinese Translators Spoil the Market) coming from Beijing, Shanghai and a couple of other cities. I know one or two of these guys (professional translators as they label themselves) by name, but have no ideas about the rest of them.

Sunny Xia Plagiarism case. This is a MSN chat screenshot with one of the plagiarists after more than one hour's negotiations. Yeasir.com has been with me since 2002 and was used on Yeasir Translations (formerly iTranslate.cn) since 2005. Archived pages from archive.org will show you when I wrote the current web site copy, those copycats didn’t even have a web site or domain name of their own. If you go to copyscape.com and search yeasir.com, you’ll see a partial list of who’s copying my site text – one serious violator sytra.cn is not listed though.

Maybe you think those guys are stupid as my current site is really not that attractive. I just put what I was thinking on those pages without much polishing. I believe they think by copying Yeasir Translations they can snatch some clients from it. Can they, by imitating me, become me?

In the business sense, by following, you lose. This reminds me of those copycats of Twitter, Youtube, Google, Facebook, Last.fm and numerous other famous web sites that are growing internationally. None of those copycat sites can rival the original.

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2 Responses to “New Yeasir Translations Web Site”

# WangYueon 04 Apr 2008 at 7:45 pm

Well,long time no see,Mr Zhang^_^Do you still remember me?Your English assistant during your career as an English teacher.Rn Cheng told me that you are doing your own business as a professional translator.It’s really amazing that he told me the news not long after I thought about what you are busy with recently this morning.
I have rarely written something since I entered university,so pardon me if there’s any vocabulary or grammar mistake in my words. I have got your MSN for a long time,but didn’t get in touch with you.I doubt if it’s wrong—- @yahoo.com. If there’s no problem,just contact me,my MSN is @sina.com Expecting your message.
Sincerely WangYue

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# Jianjunon 04 Apr 2008 at 8:13 pm

Hi Wang Yue,

Thanks for your message. I won’t forget my students

I hope everything’s fine with you and your studies. I will add you to my MSN. (I edited out your MSN address, you see lots of guys are lurking on the Internet to get your address and send you spam!)

Cheers!

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