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CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less
In this work we present a characterization of spam on Twitter. We find that 8% of 25 million URLs posted to the site point to phishing, malware, and scams listed on popular blackl...
Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Michael Zha...
AIRWEB
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Cleaning search results using term distance features
The presence of Web spam in query results is one of the critical challenges facing search engines today. While search engines try to combat the impact of spam pages on their resul...
Josh Attenberg, Torsten Suel
WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Detecting spam web pages through content analysis
In this paper, we continue our investigations of "web spam": the injection of artificially-created pages into the web in order to influence the results from search engin...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse, Den...
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Spam double-funnel: connecting web spammers with advertisers
Spammers use questionable search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to promote their spam links into top search results. In this paper, we focus on one prevalent type of spam ? ...
Yi-Min Wang, Ming Ma, Yuan Niu, Hao Chen