I bring him in.
Here is the paper:
Combating Web Spam with TrustRank.
There was a fierce discussion here at WPW about TrustRank.
I wrote a short article on my blog Sunday, August 14, 2005
Trust rank and trust
Call it TrustRank or whatever. Of course Google is one of the most advanced spam filtering SE's.
You will see that my reference,
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/...df&compression=
in the above blog post, is a link to an earlier version of the same document.
Related links:
Search Engines TrustRank and P3P
A Little Piece of the Google Algorithm - Revealed