The PageRank algorithm, used in the Google search engine, greatly improves the results of Web search by taking into account the link structure of the Web. PageRank assigns to a pa...
PageRank is an algorithm used by several search engines to rank web documents according to their assumed relevance and popularity deduced from the Web’s link structure. PageRank...
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today's web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the m...
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...
Link farm spam and replicated pages can greatly deteriorate link-based ranking algorithms like HITS. In order to identify and neutralize link farm spam and replicated pages, we lo...