A spam resistant family of concavo-convex ranks for link analysis

In this paper, we address the question of how we can identify hosts that will generate links to web spam. Detecting such spam link generators is important because almost all new spam links are created by them. By monitoring spam link generators, we can ...

With the increasing importance of search in guiding today's web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the most important factors in current commercial search engines' ranking systems, ...

Web spam has been recognized as one of the top challenges in the search engine industry [14]. A lot of recent work has addressed the problem of detecting or demoting web spam, including both content spam [16, 12] and link spam [22, 13]. However, any ...