SYSTEM FOR DETECTING LINK SPAM, A METHOD, AND AN ASSOCIATED COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

摘要

A system for determining whether a website is an illegitimate website, the system comprising: a requester module configured to request one or more rules from a host server for a website and to receive a response from the host server in response to a request; an analysis module configured to determine whether a response or lack of a response received by the requester module indicates that the website is an illegitimate website; and a record module configured to store an indication that the website is an illegitimate website, wherein the one or more rules provide one or more instructions to a robot computer program regarding access of the website by the robot computer program.