Web Spam Taxonomy

Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search engines into ranking some pages higher than they deserve. Recently, the amount of web spam has increased dramatically, leading to a degradation of search results. This paper presents a comprehensive taxonomy of current spamming techniques, which we believe can help in developing appropriate countermeasures.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: AIRWEB
• Authors: Zoltán Gyöngyi, Hector Garcia-Molina
• Keywords: AIRWEB 2005, Current Spamming Techniques, Internet Technology, Spamming, Web Spamming Refers