article_snippet: Instead a Google research team has developed a way of measuring the trustworthiness of the information contained on an internet page.
article_snippet: In a paper to be published in the Proceedings of the Very Large Database Endowment, the Google researchers said webpages would be allocated trustworthiness scores.
article_snippet: We address the fundamental question of estimating how trustworthy a given web source is. '
article_snippet: Informally, We define the trustworthiness or accuracy of a web source as the probability that it contains the correct value for a fact (such as Barack Obama's nationality), assuming that it mentions any value for that fact.'
article_snippet: However, Xin Luna Dong, Wei Zhang and colleagues at Google have designed a way of automatically extracting information from webpages and ranking webpages for trustworthiness.
article_snippet: webpages use a system webpages have called Knowledge-Based Trust, which pulls facts from many pages and then jointly estimates the correctness and accuracy of these.
article_snippet: It then counts the number of incorrect facts on a page to give It a trust score.
article_snippet: In a test of their system, Google researchers applied Google researchers model to 2.8 billion pages on the internet and were able to reliably predict the trustworthiness of 119 million pages and 5.6 million websites.
highlights_snippet: Web pages are given a Knowledge Trust score based on how accurate it is .
  