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A Quantitative Study of Forum Spamming Using Context-Based Analysis
Overview Forum spamming has become a major means of search engine spamming. To evaluate the impact of forum spamming on search quality, the paper has conducted a comprehensive study from three perspectives: that of the search user, the spammer, and the forum hosting site. They examine spam blogs and spam comments in both legitimate and honey forums. Their study shows that forum spamming is a widespread problem. Spammed forums, powered by the most popular software, show up in the top 20 search results for all the 189 popular keywords. On two blog sites, more than half (75% and 54% respectively) of the blogs are spams and even on a major and reputably well maintained blog site, 8.1% of the blogs are spam.
| Publisher | University of California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | December 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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