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New Microsoft Tool Fights Spamming
Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2006-07-14
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Microsoft wants to end the problem of search engine spamming, and company researchers have created a tool to do it. Called the Strider Search Defender, its less slick subtitle (which also describes how it works) is "Automatic and Systematic Discovery of Search Spammers through Non-Content Analysis."
It's not quite ready to go just yet. "We are in the process of fully automating Strider Search Defender," the team admits in a technical report. They continue to say, "The main purpose of releasing this preliminary study is to raise awareness of this growing problem by providing a systematic analysis and proposing a solution so that the web community can start working together to combat this problem. We urge owners of blog sites and free hosting sites to actively monitor their websites to detect abuse."
The report included a few suggestions to implement while we twiddle our thumbs waiting for Strider. "Advertisement syndicators can detect potential spammers by monitoring those customers who serve ads on a huge number of different URLs through a single account because it is highly unlikely that anyone can generate quality content at that scale.
"Second, although the content on some spam pages may actually have decent relevance, we urge search engines to consider removing such pages so as not to encourage web spamming. Third, we urge owners of publicly accessible forums (and guest books, etc.) to do a local search of ‘blogspot.com' and other spam-related domain names reported on this page to see if their forums have been abused and should be protected."
A handful of Microsoft case studies showed promising results. The Strider Search Defender should be a powerful tool.
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Doug is a staff writer for SecurityProNews, InternetFinancialNews, SearchNewz, and WebProNews.
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