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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. 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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