Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Web Spam Detection

  • Living reference work entry
  • Latest version View entry history
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Database Systems

  • 56 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Recommended Reading

  1. Becchetti L, Castillo C, Donato D, Leonardi S, Baeza-Yates R. Using rank propagation and probabilistic counting for link-based spam detection. In: Proceedings of KDD Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis; 2006.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Castillo C, Donato D, Becchetti L, Boldi P, Leonardi S, Santini M, Vigna S. A reference collection for Web spam. ACM SIGIR Forum. 2006;40(2):11–24.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Daswani N, Stoppelman M, and the Google Click Quality and Security Teams. The anatomy of clickbot.A. In: Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets; 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Davison BD. Recognizing nepotistic links on the web. In: Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search; 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Fetterly D, Manasse M, Najork M. Spam, damn spam and statistics. In: Proceedings of 7th Internaitonal Workshop on the Web and Databases; 2004. p. 1–6.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Gyöngyi Z, Garcia-Molina H. Spam: its not just for inboxes anymore. IEEE Comput. 2005;38(10):28–34.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Gyöngyi Z, Garcia-Molina H. Web Spam Taxonomy. In: Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web; 2005. p. 39–47.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Gyöngyi Z, Garcia-Molina H, Pedersen J. Combating Web spam with TrustRank. In: Proceedings of 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases; 2004. p. 576–87.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Henzinger M, Motwani R, Silverstein C. Challenges in web search engines. ACM SIGIR Forum. 2002;36(2):11–22.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Mishne G, Carmel D, Lempel R. Blocking blog spam with language model disagreement. In: Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web; 2005. p. 1–6.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Ntoulas A, Najork M, Manasse M, Fetterly D. Detecting spam web pages through content analysis. In: Proceedings of 15th International World Wide Web Conference; 2006. p. 83–92.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Wang YM, Ma M, Niu Y, Chen H. Spam double-funnel: connecting Web spammers with advertisers. In: Proceedings of 16th International World Wide Web Conference; 2007. p. 291–300.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Wu B, Davison B. Detecting semantic cloaking on the web. In: Proceedings of 15th International World Wide Web Conference; 2006. p. 819–28.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

    Marc Najork

Authors
  1. Marc Najork
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Marc Najork .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

Section Editor information

  1. Google Research, 76th 9th Ave, 10018, New York, NY, USA

    Cong Yu Research Scientist

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 Springer Science+Business Media LLC

About this entry

Cite this entry

Najork, M. (2017). Web Spam Detection. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_465-3

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_465-3

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4899-7993-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4899-7993-3

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Computer SciencesReference Module Computer Science and Engineering

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Chapter history

  1. Latest

    Web Spam Detection
    Published:
    11 February 2017

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_465-3

  2. Original

    Web Spam Detection
    Published:
    18 November 2016

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_465-2

Search

Navigation