Link analysis is a critical component of current Internet search engines' results ranking software, which determines the ordering of query results returned to the user. The o...
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...
This paper proposes to extend a previous work, The Effect of the Back Button in a Random Walk: Application for PageRank [5]. We introduce an enhanced version of the PageRank algor...
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain obtained by perturbing the transition matrix of a web graph with a damping factor that spreads part of the rank. The...
A link farm is a set of web pages constructed to mislead the importance of target pages in search engine results by boosting their link-based ranking scores. In this paper, we int...