Link Spam Alliances

Summary: Models interconnections among spam farms and their alliances to optimize rankings. Identifies optimal alliance structures, quantifies gains, and discusses defenses to detect, mitigate, and disrupt link spam in practice. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9332
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,671 | 4.90%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Zoltán Gyöngyi
2. Hector Garcia-Molina

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,226	Link Spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation	2006	VLDB	5.6187905e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,226	Link Spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation	2006	VLDB	5.6187905e-05

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