When documents deceive: Trust and provenance as new factors for information retrieval in a tangled web

Lynch, Clifford A.

doi:10.1002/1532-2890(2000)52:1<12::aid-asi1062>3.0.co;2-v

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“…Of particular relevance to this paper is credibility of Web resources, which addresses evaluative criteria for web sources, and the extent to which people use questionable information from the Web [1,7,8,28,35,35] -that is, epistemological trust and networked information. Some of this work is descriptive; other is normative.…”

Section: Trust and Information And Communication Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature on assessment of web-based resources indicates that people's evaluation of information on the Internet relies heavily on their evaluation of the source [1,7,8,28,35]. Lynch [28] reports a new form of deception in the networked world: deceiving search engines to increase the ranking of a document or web site among retrieved results.…”

Section: Bases For Judgments Of Trustworthinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lynch [28] reports a new form of deception in the networked world: deceiving search engines to increase the ranking of a document or web site among retrieved results. He asks how we manage metadata in such environment.…”

Section: Bases For Judgments Of Trustworthinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Trust and epistemic communities in biodiversity data sharing

House

2002

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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Trust is a key element of knowledge work: what we know depends largely on others.This paper discusses the concepts of communities of practice and epistemic cultures, and their implication for design of digital libraries that support data sharing, with particular reference to practices of trust and credibility. It uses an empirical study of a biodiversity digital library of data from a variety of sources to illustrate implications digital library design and operation.It concludes that diversity and uncomfortable boundary areas typify, not only digital library user groups, but the design and operation of digital libraries.

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Section: Trust and Information And Communication Technologymentioning

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Trust and epistemic communities in biodiversity data sharing

House

2002

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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“…The exploding size of the web necessitated the development of search engines and web directories. Most people with online access use a search engine to get informed and make decisions that may have medical, financial, cultural, political, security or other important implications in their lives [9,35,19,26]. Moreover, 85% of the time, people do not look past the first ten results returned by the search engine [33].…”

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“…Web spamming has received a lot of attention lately [2,3,10,11,15,17,18,20,23,26,27,30]. The first papers to raise the issue were [27,18].…”

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Web Spam, Social Propaganda and the Evolution of Search Engine Rankings

Metaxas

2010

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Summary. Search Engines have greatly influenced the way we experience the web. Since the early days of the web, users have been relying on them to get informed and make decisions. When the web was relatively small, web directories were built and maintained using human experts to screen and categorize pages according to their characteristics. By the mid 1990's, however, it was apparent that the human expert model of categorizing web pages does not scale. The first search engines appeared and they have been evolving ever since, taking over the role that web directories used to play.But what need makes a search engine evolve? Beyond the financial objectives, there is a need for quality in search results. Search engines know that the quality of their ranking will determine how successful they are. Search results, however, are not simply based on well-designed scientific principles, but they are influenced by web spammers. Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of web searches, has been recognized as a major search engine problem. It is also a serious users problem because they are not aware of it and they tend to confuse trusting the search engine with trusting the results of a search.In this paper, we analyze the influence that web spam has on the evolution of the search engines and we identify the strong relationship of spamming methods on the web to propagandistic techniques in society. Our analysis provides a foundation for understanding why spamming works and offers new insight on how to address it. In particular, it suggests that one could use social anti-propagandistic techniques to recognize web spam.

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Interactive information retrieval

Ruthven

2008

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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When documents deceive: Trust and provenance as new factors for information retrieval in a tangled web

Cited by 53 publications

References 4 publications

Trust and epistemic communities in biodiversity data sharing

Trust and epistemic communities in biodiversity data sharing

Web Spam, Social Propaganda and the Evolution of Search Engine Rankings

Interactive information retrieval

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