
doi: 10.1109/mc.2007.232
Google, Yahoo!, and other companies vying for a piece of the lucrative search-engine market continue to transform the sponsored-search model, linking results to other information media such as telephones and TV. However, click fraud undermines this process by reducing the value of Web site traffic to content providers and thereby decreasing revenue for the search engines. Threats to the search engines' underlying business model are also threats to the free search services that these companies provide to millions of users, making click fraud a concern for all.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 27 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Top 10% | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% |
