Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Qiong Wei

Siarhei Alonichau

Aliaksei Bondarionok

Described herein are technologies relating to predicting whether a resource is spam based solely upon a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the resource. The URL is tokenized in connection with generating a sequence of numerical identifiers for the resource. A score for the URL is computed based upon the sequence of numerical identifiers, where the score is indicative of a probability that the resource pointed to by the URL is spam. generating a score for the URL based upon the sequence of numbers, wherein the score is indicative of a probability that the resource pointed to by the URL is spam. When the score is above a predefined threshold, a label is assigned to the URL that indicates that the resource pointed to by the URL is spam, and an entry for the resource is not included in a search engine index based upon the label assigned to the URL.

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