Web spam is a widely-recognized threat to the quality and security of the Web. Web spam pages pollute search engine indexes, burden Web crawlers and Web mining services, and expos...
Web mail providers rely on users to “vote” to quickly and collaboratively identify spam messages. Unfortunately, spammers have begun to use bots to control large collections o...
Anirudh Ramachandran, Anirban Dasgupta, Nick Feams...
Adversarial IR in general, and search engine spam, in particular, are engaging research topics with a real-world impact for Web users, advertisers and publishers. The AIRWeb works...
Carlos Castillo, Kumar Chellapilla, Dennis Fetterl...
In the Web 2.0 eras, the individual Internet users can also act as information providers, releasing information or making comments conveniently. However, some participants may spre...
Redirection spam presents a web page with false content to a crawler for indexing, but automatically redirects the browser to a different web page. Redirection is usually immediat...