Cloak and dagger: Dynamics of web search cloaking

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 477-489

  Wang, David Y ^a   Savage, Stefan ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloaking; Search engine optimization; Web spam

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLOAKING; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS; SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION; SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATIONS; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH TERMS; SEMANTIC CONTENT; USER SEGMENT; USER TRAFFICS; WEB SEARCHES; WEB SPAM;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMIZATION; SEARCH ENGINES; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 80755187795     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046707.2046763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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