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AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Cloaking and Redirection: A Preliminary Study
Cloaking and redirection are two possible search engine spamming techniques. In order to understand cloaking and redirection on the Web, we downloaded two sets of Web pages while ...
Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Blocking Blog Spam with Language Model Disagreement
We present an approach for detecting link spam common in blog comments by comparing the language models used in the blog post, the comment, and pages linked by the comments. In co...
Gilad Mishne, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Web Spam, Propaganda and Trust
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. ...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Joseph DeStefano
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Web Spam Taxonomy
Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search engines into ranking some pages higher than they deserve. Recently, the amount of web spam has increased dramatically, le...
Zoltán Gyöngyi, Hector Garcia-Molina
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Analysis of Factors Used in Search Engine Ranking
This paper investigates the influence of different page features on the ranking of search engine results. We use Google (via its API) as our testbed and analyze the result rankin...
Albert Bifet, Carlos Castillo, Paul-Alexandru Chir...
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
SpamRank -- Fully Automatic Link Spam Detection
András A. Benczúr, Károly Csa...
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Pagerank Increase under Different Collusion Topologies
We study the impact of collusion –nepotistic linking– in a Web graph in terms of Pagerank. We prove a bound on the Pagerank increase that depends both on the reset probability...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo, Vicente L...
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Optimal Link Bombs are Uncoordinated
We analyze the recent phenomenon termed a Link Bomb, and investigate the optimal attack pattern for a group of web pages attempting to link bomb a specific web page. The typical ...
Sibel Adali, Tina Liu, Malik Magdon-Ismail