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)
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Authors
- 1. Zoltan Gyongyi (Stanford University)
- 2. Pavel Berkhin (Yahoo)
- 3. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
- 4. Jan Pedersen (Yahoo)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gyongyi_vldb06,
title = {{Link Spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation}},
author = {Gyongyi, Zoltan and Berkhin, Pavel and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Pedersen, Jan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '06},
volume = {29},
number = {2},
pages = {439--450},
doi = {10.14778/1164135.1164138},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1164135.1164138},
year = {2006}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,892 | Massively Parallel Algorithms for Personalized PageRank | 2021 | VLDB | 7.0430255e-05 |
| 4,714 | Personalized PageRank on Evolving Graphs with an Incremental Index-Update Scheme | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.5497309e-05 |
| 5,741 | Efficient Algorithms for Finding Approximate Heavy Hitters in Personalized PageRanks | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.1029326e-05 |
| 12,666 | P2P Authority Analysis for Social Communities | 2007 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,872 | Link Spam Alliances | 2005 | VLDB | - |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 138 | Discovering Large Dense Subgraphs in Massive Graphs | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00029823423 |
| 2,618 | Combating Web Spam with TrustRank | 2004 | VLDB | 8.3380047e-05 |
| 13,872 | Link Spam Alliances | 2005 | VLDB | - |
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