Since the link structure of the web is an important element in ranking systems on search engines, web spammers widely use the link structure of the web to increase the rank of the...
Reid Andersen, Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes...
Combating Web spam is one of the greatest challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art anti-spam techniques focus mainly on detecting varieties of spam strategies, such as ...
Chao Wei, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun...
The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other ...
This paper focuses on spam blog (splog) detection. Blogs are highly popular, new media social communication mechanisms and splogs corrupt blog search results as well as waste netw...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
We study the problem of detecting coordinated free text campaigns in large-scale social media. These campaigns – ranging from coordinated spam messages to promotional and advert...
Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee, Zhiyuan Cheng, Daniel ...