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...
—Forums on the Web are increasingly spammed by miscreants in order to attract visitors to their (often malicious) websites. In this paper, we study the prevalence of forum spammi...
: The aim of this paper is to provide a logically accurate and technologically sound taxonomy of artifact functions. To this end, I review one of the recent proposals of such taxon...
Web spam can significantly deteriorate the quality of search engines. Early web spamming techniques mainly manipulate page content. Since linkage information is widely used in we...
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...