Jul 14, 2006 : Microsoft Tool Blocks URL Scam Engines

📅 July 14, 2006 - Software giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) announced on Friday it has released Strider Search Defender, a new tool aimed at preventing Web spammers from exploiting Internet search engines to drive traffic to spam URLs, according to tech publication TechWorld. The tool identifies spam URLs that are being distributed through social networking, forum and blog-hosting Web sites, and can prevent those URLs from being indexed by search engines.
Yi-Min Wang of Microsoft Research says spammers will send URLs that link to spam Web sites to as many Internet forum pages as they can and since these URLs appear so frequently on valid Web sites, search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN will index them and they will begin appearing in search results. The tool uses elements of technology previously developed by Microsoft Research in projects called Strider, HoneyMonkey and Typo Patrol to search forums that have been spammed and to identify spam URLs in the hope of removing them before they are indexed by search engines.

In addition to specifications for the tool, Microsoft Research also published information in its report to encourage owners of free Web hosting sites, search engines and publicly accessible Web forums to do what they can to prevent Web spammers from exploiting search engines.

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