Link spam is used to increase the ranking of certain target web pages by misleading the connectivity-based ranking algorithms in search engines. In this paper we study how web pag...
The currently booming search engine industry has determined many online organizations to attempt to artificially increase their ranking in order to attract more visitors to their ...
In this paper, we address the question of how we can identify hosts that will generate links to web spam. Detecting such spam link generators is important because almost all new s...
How to effectively protect against spam on search ranking results is an important issue for contemporary web search engines. This paper addresses the problem of combating one majo...
Guoyang Shen, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Guang Feng, Sh...
Just as email spam has negatively impacted the user messaging experience, the rise of Web spam is threatening to severely degrade the quality of information on the World Wide Web....