Can you imagine a time when there was no internet or Google search and one had to refer to books to extract any information or recipe? Nowadays you can get any information with just a simple Google search. It shows many results on websites that can provide even the tiny-winy detail regarding your search. But when you browse those websites have you ever wondered which of them are Google’s trustworthy sites and which of them are not? How many of them are reliable websites and have trustworthy resources?
Importance of Trustworthy Sources
Most people conduct dozens of searches per day. “Google-ing” is one of our ways to calm our curiosity. Even if it is something as small as nearby restaurants or local weather. Getting relevant, higher content material, and factual information can help us go about our day successfully.
On a bigger scale, a trustworthy resource provides a foundation for our shared reality. There could be a million things that could go wrong if you trust a fake or dishonest website. For example, at present most people when they get sick they google. If they go to an untrustworthy website and take the remedy then there can be serious health consequences. It can even influence how and who they vote during elections. Collectively, it could lead anyone to a wrong and dangerous path.
Google’s Trustworthy Sites
Since its release, Google has risen to prominence as the best search engine with millions of users around the world. The few reasons behind the popularity of its search engine were Google’s trustworthy sites, higher content material, and more search results compared to other browsers. The algorithm used for its web browser provides users with reliable websites that are both relevant and authoritative.
Google tries to provide top-notch and higher content material topically related to your search. If it has around 1000 relevant search results, Google will rank them preferentially in terms of how trustworthy the websites are. The more trustworthy a site is, the higher it ranks and has more chances of being visible.
Coming over to the trustworthiness of Google’s site, it is determined by the quality and quantity of links points to a website. More the links a website has, the more authoritative those likes get, and the more trustworthy the site will be, and the higher will be its rank.
Trustworthy and authoritative are not the only factors that determine the rank of a site. But Google also uses a combination of more than 200 factors to determine the rank.
Few factors that determine the rank of Google’s Trustworthy Sites are:
- Content Quality
Google evaluates the type and the quality of the content you have on your site. Higher content material makes a site more trustworthy giving it a higher rank.
- Speed of Website to load
One factor that determines a better user experience is the time taken by a website to load. The faster the site loads the better, making them preferred by Google.
- Mobile Friendliness
Since mobile is the most used electronic gadget in the world, mobile-friendly sites get an advantage in determining the rank.
- Security of the Site
Sites that are secure and are coded correctly are considered more authoritative and trustworthy.
Issue With Determining Trustworthiness of a Site
Google has the best search algorithm of all web browsers. But an issue lies with Google’s Propensity to equate link with the trustworthy rank. The quality and integrity of a site aren’t determined by a set of objectives factors.
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Google’s approach, which essentially decentralizes the trustworthiness evaluation process, is good. But it can be manipulated by sufficiently skilled hackers or individuals.
How to Identify a Trustworthy Site?
You can’t always depend on Google to provide you a trustworthy source. Below we have mentioned few solutions that will help you evaluate the trustworthiness of a site by yourself.
1. Double-check the URL and the domain name of the site
Before you even open a website make sure either from the search engine or an email that the website belongs to a trusted organization such as government agencies, nonprofits, foundations, or universities. In case you plan to enter your financial or personal details into the website make sure you have a look at the website’s URL. Only give the host website your personal and bank details that have a secured link. A secured link will always begin with “HTTPS://”. The “S” means that the website relies on a secured connection that is more protected from hackers than the usual “HTTP://”.
2. Trust Seals and secure connections of a website
Secure websites will have a trust badge or seal placed on the website. This ensures that the page is legitimate and that all their data is collected through secured third-party service providers. A trust seal confirms that the website is authentic and reliable.
3. Check the website, check your gut
Once you start browsing and get used to share or purchase from a website, you will get a sense of credibility or a gut feeling once you open the website and land on their homepage. If a website has an old-fashioned or unreal design then it might be an unsecured and untrustworthy website. If you even spot a website with good web design that has typos, grammatical errors, and even inconsistent spacing between words and paragraphs you might want to stay away from it.
4. Read Reviews
In google web browser when you do consumer shopping you can perform a quick search to confirm whether a business is trustworthy or not. If you want to check the reliability then just search the business name and type reviews or customer reviews to it. Google will quickly show you some feedback on the legitimacy of the brand and its product’s quality and service.
The Final Word
Even though Google could improve its trustworthy rank determining factor, but it is the best search engine you got. The company makes sure that Google’s trustworthy sites are safe, secure, and provide reliable and high content websites. With a little bit of self-evaluation of sites, you are visiting there shouldn’t be much problem in using the Google search engine or trusting the websites on it.
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