How To Tell The Reliability Of A Google Search Information

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HOW TO TELL THE RELIABILITY OF A GOOGLE SEARCH INFORMATION
Technology is here to stay, and it is part and parcel of our daily lives. In the present age, it contributes to above ninety percent of all the information obtained from the internet. Google search has enabled immediate provision of information to each. The question that we need to ask ourselves is whether this freely and easily accessible information from Google search engines is reliable. To know the fact in the above, it is essential to have a check on some critical factors before using this information. The procedure below has to be followed since bloggers have gotten access to posting information into Google, their sources hence may lack adequate reliability.
To do this, the following have to be put into consideration for you to check for the reliability of the Google search information source. The first is the authority of the information, is the author of the information known? How is the expertise of the author in the field they are writing about? The above and other factors relating to the author should give you an insight into the authority of the author. The second factor to consider is the accuracy of this formation. One should check to see if it is free from grammatical errors if it is related to the topic you are searching and if it answers your questions accurately (Blakesley, David, and Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen 158). One should also check if the information has gone through any form of editing and the number of editions if there are any.

The third issue to check on is to check on the currency of the source. One has to check the time the information has been first published if it is up to date and the frequency to which the source site is updated (Nazario, Luis, Deborah Borchers, and William Lewis 420). Using the above techniques, one easily identify the reliability of the internet source. Those sites with less score in answering the above questions should be put to scrutiny and less used.
Works Cited
Blakesley, David, and Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen. Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age with Exercises, Brief. Cengage Learning, 2011.
Nazario, Luis, Deborah Borchers, and William Lewis. Bridges to better writing. Cengage Learning, 2012.