Connecting P2P to the Web: A Gnutella-WWW Gateway ∗ (2009)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present an approach to extend the abilities of peer-to-peer networks to take advantage of broad information resources on the World Wide Web and vice versa. Either network may contain the data to...
IMPLEMENTING A WEB PROXY EVALUATION ARCHITECTURE (2008)
The evaluation of Web proxy performance can be complex. In this paper, we present the lessons and results of our implementation of a novel simultaneous proxy evaluation technique. In this...
Extracting Link Spam using Biased Random Walks From Spam Seed Sets (2008)
Link spam deliberately manipulates hyperlinks between web pages in order to unduly boost the search engine ranking of one or more target pages. Link based ranking algorithms such as PageRank, HITS,...
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Incorporating Trust into Web Search (2007)
Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison
The Web today includes many pages intended to deceive search engines, in which content or links are created to attain an unwarranted result ranking. Since the links among web pages are used to...
Undue Influence: Eliminating the Impact of Link Plagiarism on Web Search Rankings (2006)
Link farm spam and replicated pages can greatly deteriorate linkbased ranking algorithms such as HITS. In order to identify and neutralize link farm spam and replicated pages, we look for sufficient...
David Brondsema, Andrew Schamp, Jennifer Golbeck, Aaron Mannes, Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, ...
Reconfigurable Systems (20 + 5 mins)
Detecting Semantic Cloaking on the Web (2006)
By supplying different versions of a web page to search engines and to browsers, a content provider attempts to cloak the real content from the view of the search engine. Semantic cloaking refers to...
� Proposed Solution � Evaluation (2006)
� Conclusion How search engine works � Crawler downloads pages from the web. � Indexer puts the content of the downloaded pages into index. � For a given query, a relevance score of the query...
Incorporating Trust into Web Search ∗ (2006)
Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison
The Web today includes many pages intended to deceive search engines, in which content or links are created to attain an unwarranted result ranking. Since the links among web pages are used to...
Undue influence: Eliminating the impact of link plagiarism on web search rankings (2006)
Link farm spam and replicated pages can greatly deteriorate link-based ranking algorithms like HITS. In order to identify and neutralize link farm spam and replicated pages, we look for sufficient...
Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages (2005)
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today’s web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the most important factors...
Cloaking and Redirection: A Preliminary Study (2005)
Cloaking and redirection are two possible search engine spamming techniques. In order to understand cloaking and redirection on the Web, we downloaded two sets of Web pages while mimicking a popular...
Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages (2005)
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today’s web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the most important factors...
Lessons from a Gnutella-Web gateway (2004)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Lessons from a Gnutella-Web Gateway (2004)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-to-peer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
A split stack approach to mobility-providing performance-enhancing proxies (2002)
Brian D. Davison, Kiran Komaravolu, Baoning Wu
Many varieties of performance-enhancing proxies (PEPs) have been proposed to improve TCP performance and/or provide seamless mobility. One simple, albeit limited technique is the application-layer...
A split stack approach to mobility-providing performance-enhancing proxies (2002)
Performance-enhancing Proxies, Brian D. Davison, Kiran Komaravolu, Baoning Wu
1 Introduction Many varieties of performance-enhancing proxies (PEPs) have been proposed to improve TCP performance and/or provide seamless mobility [4, 7]. The typical approach requires protocol...
When does a hit = a miss? (2002)
Brian D. Davison, Chandrasekar Krishnan, Baoning Wu
The Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation (SPE) architecture allows one to evaluate implemented proxies in a live network environment and be able to make performance comparisons between black-box systems....