Site level noise removal for search engines

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 73-82

  Da Costa Carvalho, André Luiz ^a   Chirita, Paul Alexandru ^b   De Moura, Edleno Silva ^a   Calado, Pável ^c   Nejdl, Wolfgang ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Link analysis; Noise reduction; PageRank; Spam

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; SPAMMING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WEBSITES; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; REINFORCEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES;

LINK ANALYSIS; NOISY LINKS; OUTPUT RANKINGS; PAGERANK ALGORITHM;

SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HYPERLINK STRUCTURE; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; LINK ANALYSIS; LINK DATABASE; LINK STRUCTURE; MUTUAL REINFORCEMENT; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE REMOVAL; ON-LINE ORGANIZATIONS; PAGERANK; REAL-WORLD ENTITIES; SPAM; WEB GRAPHS;

EID: 34250686269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1135777.1135793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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