Microsoft Research has launched the Strider Search Defender project. The project is aimed at automating the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis.


Microsoft Research has launched the Strider Search Defender project. The project is aimed at automating the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis.

The Search Defender project integrates technologies from Microsoft Research’s previous prototypes including:

– Strider HoneyMonkey

– Strider URL Tracer

According to Microsoft Research, their approach consists of two steps including:

– Spam Hunter supplies a list of confirmed spam URLs as search terms to search engines and locates the forums that they have spammed.

– Microsoft Research then feeds a list of potential spam URLs to the Strider URL Tracer which provides Top Domain View. The tracer launches a browser to visit the URLs and record secondary URLs that are visited.

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