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<h2 id="topics">Topics</h2> <p>Topics related to Web spam (spamdexing): </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Link_spam/V30auQyv">Link spam</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Keyword_spamming/V30auQyv">Keyword spamming</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Cloaking/VlPofBxs">Cloaking</a></li> <li>Malicious tagging</li> <li>Spam related to blogs, including <a href="/facts/Spam_in_blogs/RFM4blAm">comment spam</a>, <a href="/facts/Spam_blog/FUSQGsxw">splogs</a>, and <a href="/facts/Sping/f5SJ0Typ">ping spam</a></li></ul> <p>Other topics: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Click_fraud/suboHSvE">Click fraud</a> detection</li> <li>Reverse engineering of <a href="/facts/Search_engine/SRntsbz2">search engine</a>'s <a href="/facts/Ranking/9unRtwbc">ranking</a> algorithm</li> <li>Web <a href="/facts/Content_filtering/bHoW65eY">content filtering</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Ad_filtering/WfmBIxuP">Advertisement blocking</a></li> <li>Stealth <a href="/facts/Web_crawling/ra7D1xyb">crawling</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Troll_(Internet)/fQJXsSTN">Troll (Internet)</a></li> <li>Malicious tagging or voting in <a href="/facts/Social_networks/xDBVmcb8">social networks</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Astroturfing/1jFTaJzI">Astroturfing</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sockpuppetry/If2b18Qp">Sockpuppetry</a></li></ul> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The term "adversarial information retrieval" was first coined in 2000 by <a href="/facts/Andrei_Broder/SGDWm2ea">Andrei Broder</a> (then Chief Scientist at <a href="/facts/Alta_Vista/X0C5ts5p">Alta Vista</a>) during the Web plenary session at the <a href="/facts/Text_Retrieval_Conference/XrFgbLQu">TREC</a>-9 conference.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence_content_detection/YVpMlHHU">Artificial intelligence content detection</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Information_retrieval/MFSmpeNw">Information retrieval</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Spamdexing/V30auQyv">Spamdexing</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/">AIRWeb</a>: series of workshops on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web</li> <li><a href="http://webspam.lip6.fr/">Web Spam Challenge</a>: competition for researchers on Web Spam Detection</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100217125910/http://barcelona.research.yahoo.net/webspam/">Web Spam Datasets</a>: datasets for research on Web Spam Detection</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Jansen, B. J. (2007) Click fraud. IEEE Computer. 40(7), 85-86. <a href="https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/jjansen/academic/jansen_click_fraud.pdf" target="_blank">https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/jjansen/academic/jansen_click_fraud.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>B. Davison, M. Najork, and T. Converse (2006), SIGIR Worksheet Report: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2006) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090320173324/http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigir/forum/2006D/2006d_sigirforum_davison.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090320173324/http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigir/forum/2006D/2006d_sigirforum_davison.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>D. Hawking and N. Craswell (2004), Very Large Scale Retrieval and Web Search (Preprint version) Archived 2007-08-29 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://es.csiro.au/pubs/trecbook_for_website.pdf" target="_blank">http://es.csiro.au/pubs/trecbook_for_website.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>