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JDFP
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Badvertisements: Stealthy Click-Fraud with Unwitting Accessories
We describe a new type of threat to the Internet infrastructure, in the shape of a highly efficient but very well camouflaged click-fraud attack on the advertising infrastructure....
Mona Gandhi, Markus Jakobsson, Jacob Ratkiewicz
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Larger is better: seed selection in link-based anti-spamming algorithms
Seed selection is of significant importance for the biased PageRank algorithms such as TrustRank to combat link spamming. Previous work usually uses a small seed set, which has a ...
Qiancheng Jiang, Lei Zhang, Yizhen Zhu, Yan Zhang
ICIW
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Using Propagation of Distrust to Find Untrustworthy Web Neighborhoods
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...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Estimating labels from label proportions
Consider the following problem: given sets of unlabeled observations, each set with known label proportions, predict the labels of another set of observations, also with known lab...
Alex J. Smola, Novi Quadrianto, Quoc V. Le, Tib&ea...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A cautious surfer for PageRank
This work proposes a novel cautious surfer to incorporate trust into the process of calculating authority for web pages. We evaluate a total of sixty queries over two large, real-...
Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison