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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."

5 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. In Redmond, Washington by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The engine spams YOU.

  2. good? by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    search-spam sucks bad. I'm tired of doing searches and finding 100s of useless links and "secondary search pages" with nothing but ads and other junk [spyware/adware].

    Tom

    --
    Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  3. option 1 or option 2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ooh, ooh? will they be little funky spider-bots, or do we get the huge mecha-panther?

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

    ...says someone with a link to a poker site in his sig.

  5. I don't believe it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    War is unfolding spreading across the Middle East. Israel is fighting a two-front war, while Iraq is in open insurrection.

    The end times may be near, but all that you guys can think about is a post by "Barbie Dollar" about search engine optimization.

    If any of us are still alive in ten years, none of the survivors will care about how to spam a search engine, or even what a search engine was. Get some priorities, will you?