%0 Report
%9 Technical Report
%A Gyongyi, Zoltan
%A Garcia-Molina, Hector
%D 2004
%F ilprints:646
%I Stanford InfoLab
%K web search, web spam
%T Web Spam Taxonomy
%U http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/646/
%X Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search engines and give some pages higher ranking than they deserve. Recently, the amount of web spam has increased dramatically, leading to a degradation of search results. This paper presents a comprehensive taxonomy of current spamming techniques, which we believe can help in developing appropriate countermeasures.