Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Microsoft researchers follow Web spam money trail

Microsoft researchers follow Web spam money trail by ZDNet's Ryan Naraine -- Using a homegrown tool called Fiddler, researchers at Microsoft have come up with a system to track the money that flows from big-name advertisers to search engine spammers. The methodology, created by Microsoft Research in partnership with the University of California, Davis, has already uncovered a complex scheme where a small group using false doorway pages [...]

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