Link Spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation
Summary: Introduces spam mass, a metric of the impact of link spam on a page's ranking. Estimates of spam mass enable identifying pages that disproportionately benefit from link spamming; Yahoo! web graph experiments reveal tens of thousands of heavy-weight spam instances. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Zoltan Gyongyi
- 2. Pavel Berkhin
- 3. Hector Garcia-Molina
- 4. Jan Pedersen
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,560 | Massively Parallel Algorithms for Personalized PageRank | 2021 | VLDB | 6.0788254e-05 |
| 5,666 | Personalized PageRank on Evolving Graphs with an Incremental Index-Update Scheme | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.3824583e-05 |
| 6,310 | Efficient Algorithms for Finding Approximate Heavy Hitters in Personalized PageRanks | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.111823e-05 |
| 12,481 | P2P Authority Analysis for Social Communities | 2007 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 13,685 | Link Spam Alliances | 2005 | VLDB | - |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | Discovering Large Dense Subgraphs in Massive Graphs | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00065421423 |
| 2,566 | Combating Web Spam with TrustRank | 2004 | VLDB | 8.5304697e-05 |
| 13,685 | Link Spam Alliances | 2005 | VLDB | - |
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