Google looking at ways to rate websites based more on trustworthiness

Monday, March 2, 2015 - 10:00 in Mathematics & Economics

A team of researchers at Google has been looking into ways to change the way links are retrieved by its famous search engine—instead of ranking them based on popularity, the researchers are looking into ways of ranking based on the trustworthiness of the site, which would be based on information the web agrees is factual. In their paper they have uploaded to the arXiv preprint sever, the team describes their ideas and what they have found thus far.

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