Nullification test collections for web spam and SEO

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 53-60

  Jones, Timothy ^a   Sankaranarayana, Ramesh ^a   Hawking, David ^b   Craswell, Nick ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Funnelback Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evaluation; test collections; web spam

Indexed keywords

AIR RESEARCH; EVALUATION TEST; OPTIMISATIONS; QUERY LISTS; SEARCH RESULTS; TEST COLLECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESEARCH; SEA ICE; SEARCH ENGINES;

INTERNET;

EID: 77954447478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531914.1531927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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