Serf and turf: Crowdturfing for fun and profit

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 679-688

  Wang, Gang ^a   Wilson, Christo ^a   Zhao, Xiaohan ^a   Zhu, Yibo ^a   Mohanlal, Manish ^a   Zheng, Haitao ^b   Zhao, Ben Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Crowdturfing; Experimentation; Spam; Sybils

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; CROWDTURFING; EXPERIMENTATION; SPAM; SYBILS;

NETWORK SECURITY; PROFITABILITY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84860858213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187836.2187928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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