Topical TrustRank: Using Topicality to Combat Web Spam

Topical TrustRank: Using Topicality to Combat Web Spam- Baoning Wu, Vinay Goel and Brian D. Davison propose to partition the seed set used in TrustRank by topic and calculate trust scores for each topic separately, making use of the Open Directory Project. Paper presented to the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2006.