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MS Research Automates Search Engine Spam Hunt

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'm-all-for-less-junk dept.

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."

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  1. Not before time. by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm all for people being allowed to try and game the system...Anything else would restrict the whole purpose of the Internet as a repository for whatever the hell someone wants to put in there.

    At the same time, I'm all for search engines blacklisting people who game the system, parked domains, crap aggredator pages, etc. It's all about building a better mousetrap.

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  2. Human Powered? by pembo13 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems to me that a group of 10 people could easily flag a large amount of spam websites. Is this currently being done by any major engine?

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  3. Good. by ExileOnHoth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This *must* be one of the next battle lines in the so-called search wars.

    I remember the first time I saw google - I was blown away: "Wow. These results are exactly the web pages I was looking for!" But that's no longer the case when you search in google. They've really fallen behind in being able to separate out (or, as they say, "search for") the pages I want from the junk.

    I hope google will win this war, but maybe microsoft chucking some money at the problem will help light a fire under google to get this fixed before someone else does it better. If searching at google no longer brings me relevant results better than any other source, I'm gonna start looking for somewhere else to search. Just like I did when I switched to google from yahoo back in the twentieth century.

  4. Re:Go Microsoft! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Amusingly, you're most likely getting affected only if you're searching for penis pumps, pornographic content and gambling.

    And cracks, keygens, and warez.