How about a social engineering solution to bot net's.
Someone with moderately deep pockets (google;-)
could regularly purchase bot net time from
the undernet providers, have them generate attacks
on fake targets, then automatically ban those
machines from google access until they get fixed.
ie a google search from an owned box gets a page
informing the owner of how to fix it. For extra points, publish monthly stats of owned boxes per
IP segment.
No it won't, because they will clearly be targetting
a link. ie their actions will not be "sparse" in
time as well as IP address. If you modify to also
make them sparse in time then you are outvoted by
the other metric google has access to , ie the number of implied "thumbs up" clickers of the link
who did not complain. Also your bot net has to manage to sparsely click not only the link you are targetting but also other genuinely bad links.
In the limit the job of the bot net is the one
requiring AI!
A simple automatic karma-like system whereby
your ip/signature/tod is used to rank each
thumbs down. ie it doesn't get counted until
it correlates with n other independent thumbs
downers. Google could automatically examine the system logs for coordinated campaigns and mass disqualify participants votes. The system works because the vast large majority of thumbs downers would be genuine and spread sparsely in link-space.
AI is not required. Just add a "This link was useless/spam" icon next to each google result item. Then users who are annoyed by the bad link can click "Back" and click on the icon to inform google. After a sufficient number of thumbs down, the link gets delisted (with baysian (?) stats negatively impacting "similar" search results in future).
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A large set of pointers to open-source
astronomy software can be found on
the Linux for Astronomy site. Go to the links
section to get links to most packages
homepages.
Linux for Astronomy is at
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Masses of space/astronomy open source packages, see
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How about a social engineering solution to bot net's. Someone with moderately deep pockets (google ;-)
could regularly purchase bot net time from
the undernet providers, have them generate attacks
on fake targets, then automatically ban those
machines from google access until they get fixed.
ie a google search from an owned box gets a page
informing the owner of how to fix it. For extra points, publish monthly stats of owned boxes per
IP segment.
No it won't, because they will clearly be targetting a link. ie their actions will not be "sparse" in time as well as IP address. If you modify to also make them sparse in time then you are outvoted by the other metric google has access to , ie the number of implied "thumbs up" clickers of the link who did not complain. Also your bot net has to manage to sparsely click not only the link you are targetting but also other genuinely bad links. In the limit the job of the bot net is the one requiring AI!
A simple automatic karma-like system whereby your ip/signature/tod is used to rank each thumbs down. ie it doesn't get counted until it correlates with n other independent thumbs downers. Google could automatically examine the system logs for coordinated campaigns and mass disqualify participants votes. The system works because the vast large majority of thumbs downers would be genuine and spread sparsely in link-space.
AI is not required. Just add a "This link was
useless/spam" icon next to each google result item.
Then users who are annoyed by the bad link can
click "Back" and click on the icon to inform
google. After a sufficient number of thumbs
down, the link gets delisted (with baysian (?)
stats negatively impacting "similar" search
results in future).
Check out the Linux for Biotechnology cdrom at www.randomfactory.com
A large set of pointers to open-source astronomy software can be found on the Linux for Astronomy site. Go to the links section to get links to most packages homepages. Linux for Astronomy is at http://www.randomfactory.com/