Web spam, propaganda and trust

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, AIRWeb 2005 - Held in Conjunction with the 14th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 70-78

  Metaxas, Panagiotis T ^a   De Stefano, Joseph ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

HITS; Link structure; PageRank; Search; Web graph; Web spam

Indexed keywords

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

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SPAMMING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84876856940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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