Link spam deliberately manipulates hyperlinks between web pages in order to unduly boost the search engine ranking of one or more target pages. Link based ranking algorithms such ...
Recent work on modeling the web graph has dwelt on capturing the degree distributions observed on the web. Pointing out that this represents a heavy reliance on "local" p...
Abstract--To make sure they can quickly respond to a specific query, the main search engines have several mechanisms. One of them consists in ranking web pages according to their i...
In TREC 2003, our experiments have been concentrated only on the topic distillation task. We first simply apply the term-based technique to the .GOV web collection, and then re-r...