Web spam, social propaganda and the evolution of search engine rankings

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 45 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 170-182

  Metaxas, Panagiotis Takis ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

HITS; Link structure; PageRank; Search engines; Social networks; Web graph; Web search; Web spam

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SPAMMING; WEBSITES;

HITS; LINK STRUCTURE; PAGERANK; WEB GRAPHS; WEB SEARCHES; WEB SPAM;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 77952748671     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12436-5_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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