Measuring similarity to detect qualified links

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 215, Issue , 2007, Pages 49-56

  Qi, Xiaoguang ^a   Nie, Lan ^a   Davison, Brian D ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Link analysis; Link classification; Web search engine; Web spam

Indexed keywords

LINK ANALYSIS; LINK CLASSIFICATION; SEARCH QUALITY; WEB SPAM;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GRAPH THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

EID: 35548944039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244408.1244418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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