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The Anti-Social Tagger - Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems

, , , and . AIRWeb '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, page 61--68. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (April 2008)
DOI: 10.1145/1451983.1451998

Abstract

The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systemshas become a popular way to manage and find informationon the web. The community structure of such systems attractsspammers: recent post pages, popular pages or specifictag pages can be manipulated easily. As a result, searchingor tracking recent posts does not deliver quality resultsannotated in the community, but rather unsolicited, oftencommercial, web sites. To retain the benefits of sharingone’s web content, spam-fighting mechanisms that can facethe flexible strategies of spammers need to be developed.

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