Discovering irrelevance in the blogosphere through blog search
Faculty / School
Faculty of Computer Sciences (FCS)
Department
Department of Computer Science
Was this content written or created while at IBA?
Yes
Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
9-19-2011
Conference Name
2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Conference Location
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Conference Dates
25-27 July 2011
ISBN/ISSN
80052742654 (Scopus)
First Page
457
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Keywords
Blog search, Blogosphere, Content-based, Irrelevance, Link structure, Splogs
Abstract / Description
Web 2.0 technologies have given birth to the blogosphere, which is an information sharing medium by the users for the users. Furthermore, these technologies have also expanded the search problem to a new form of search known as blog search. Similar to Web search, blog search has been affected by spam which affects the quality of search results. This paper approaches the relevant blog problem in the top search results against the general topic queries. It pursues a study of irrelevant blogs appearing in the top search results of Google Blog Search for the blogspot domains. We define metrics for irrelevant blogs by observing the qualitative relevance of content and by analyzing the link structure of those blogs. Our preliminary results show an overall recall of 0.875 with a precision of 1.0 for finding irrelevant blogs in the top 15 search results against six general topic queries on Google Blog Search.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2011.84
Recommended Citation
Qureshi, M. A., Younus, A., Touheed, N., Qureshi, M. S., & Saeed, M. (2011). Discovering irrelevance in the blogosphere through blog search., 457. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2011.84
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