Link spam target detection using page farms

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Zhou, Bin ^a   Pei, Jian ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Link Spam; Page Farm; PageRank

Indexed keywords

AS-LINKS; DATA SETS; DETECTION METHODS; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LINK STRUCTURE; LINK-BASED RANKING; PAGE FARM; PAGE RANKING; PAGERANK; PAGERANK SCORE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PRECISION AND RECALL; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TARGET DETECTION; WEB PAGE; WEB SEARCH ENGINES;

FARMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; TARGETS; WEBSITES;

INTERNET;

EID: 73349120904     PISSN: 15564681     EISSN: 1556472X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1552303.1552306     Document Type: Article

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