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In recent years, social Web sites have become important components of the Web. With their success, however, has come a growing influx of spam. If left unchecked, spam threatens to undermine resource sharing, interactivity, and openness. This article surveys three categories of potential countermeasures - those based on detection, demotion, and prevention. Although many of these countermeasures have been proposed before for email and Web spam, the authors find that their applicability to social Web sites differs.
Published in:
Internet Computing, IEEE
(Volume:11
,
Issue:
6
)
Date of Publication: Nov.-Dec. 2007
- Page(s):
- 36 - 45
- ISSN :
- 1089-7801
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 9766653
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/MIC.2007.125
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 05 November 2007
- Issue Date :
- Nov.-Dec. 2007
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Computer Society
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