Despite the success of modern Web search engines, challenges remain when it comes to providing people with access to the right information at the right time. In this paper, we desc...
In this paper, we study the overall link-based spam structure and its evolution which would be helpful for the development of robust analysis tools and research for Web spamming a...
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. Bu...
Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. We present a real-world study of modeling the behavior of ...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Rob...
In this paper, we continue our investigations of "web spam": the injection of artificially-created pages into the web in order to influence the results from search engin...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse, Den...