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...
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...
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...
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 ? ...