MS Research Automates Search Engine Spam Hunt

Barbie Dollar writes "Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious new project to hunt down and neutralize large-scale search engine spammers. The project, called Strider Search Defender, automates the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis. The project integrates technology from two previous Microsoft Research prototypes (Strider HoneyMonkey and Strider URL Tracer) and promises a new approach to removing junk results from search engine queries."

Comments

if it works

[BarryLoper]

If they could make something like this work, it would be a big draw away from Google.

Of course, with their track record of Neat Ideas vs. Actual Products, (WinFS, etc.) I'm not holding my breath.

I am, however, wishing them luck.