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24 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Microsoft on link spam; using temporal trackingA recent Microsoft search patent came out for a system which detects spam websites by looking at the changes in link information on a given page/set of pages over time. We recently covered some potential ways of going about this with some analysis of Google in Detecting web spam from changes to links of websites (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080147669.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080147669RS=DN/20080147669) FiledDecember 14, 2006 : Published June 19, 2008As we know from the last excursion, link activity over time can unlock potential spam signals for search engines to use. This can be done by looking at a variety of features of the associated link information. As with any analysis the system uses a probabilistic model to judge what is and is not considered to be a spammy link profile.This is also not limited to inbound links, but to outbound links as well (because a link profile is more than...
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