Abstract. Analysis of aggregate and individual Web requests shows that PageRank is a poor predictor of traffic. We use empirical data to characterize properties of Web traffic not ...
Web link analysis has been proved to provide significant enhancement to the precision of web search in practice. Among existing approaches, Kleinberg’s HITS and Google’s PageR...
Zheng Chen, Li Tao, Jidong Wang, Liu Wenyin, Wei-Y...
In order to artificially boost the rank of commercial pages in search engine results, search engine optimizers pay for links to these pages on other websites. Identifying paid lin...
We consider the problem of dust: Different URLs with Similar Text. Such duplicate URLs are prevalent in web sites, as web server software often uses aliases and redirections, and...
Abstract. Since current search engines employ link-based ranking algorithms as an important tool to decide a ranking of sites, Web spammers are making a significant effort to man...