Identifying link farm spam pages

14th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 820-829

  Wu, Baoning ^a   Davison, Brian D ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

HITS; Link analysis; PageRank; Spam; Web search engine

Indexed keywords

LINK ANALYSIS; LINK-BASED RANKING; PAGERANK; RANKING SYSTEM; SEED SET; WEB GRAPHS; WEB PAGE; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB TRAFFIC;

FARMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77953033645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1062745.1062762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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