SDM
2008
SIAM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
SIAM
Web spam, which refers to any deliberate actions bringing to selected web pages an unjustifiable favorable relevance or importance, is one of the major obstacles for high quality ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Web spam is a widely-recognized threat to the quality and security of the Web. Web spam pages pollute search engine indexes, burden Web crawlers and Web mining services, and expos...
AIRWEB
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
We study the usability of linguistic features in the Web spam classification task. The features were computed on two Web spam corpora: Webspam-Uk2006 and Webspam-Uk2007, we make t...
AIRWEB
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art spam detection techniques are usually designed for specific known types of Web spa...
AIRWEB
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
We present an algorithm, witch, that learns to detect spam hosts or pages on the Web. Unlike most other approaches, it simultaneously exploits the structure of the Web graph as we...
CEAS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
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....
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
Social media are becoming increasingly popular and have attracted considerable attention from spammers. Using a sample of more than ninety thousand known spam Web sites, we found ...
WEBDB
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The increasing importance of search engines to commercial web sites has given rise to a phenomenon we call “web spam”, that is, web pages that exist only to mislead search eng...
ICDM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
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...
CEAS
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Web spam research has been hampered by a lack of statistically significant collections. In this paper, we perform the first large-scale characterization of web spam using conten...