LAB+10

Transparency is the measure of reliability of a particular website, which depends on the process by which the information given on the website is accumulated, how often that information is updated and how helpful the website is to its users.

For this assignment, I am choosing to analyse Wikispaces and Google News.

Looking into Wikipedia, we see that it is a website that allows users to put in information about anything they want and other users can edit it in anyway they want. The credibility of the information that can be seen on Wikipedia is extremely low as it is not put in or checked by experts but by the general normal people. There may be some parts of the information that is true but it cannot be trusted, and for this reason Universities do not allow and tell them to stay away from Wikipedia as much as possible.

On the other hand, if we look at Google News we see an extremely credible source of information. The reasons for this are firstly, Google has made a name for itself in the world market over the years and it has done this by gaining the trust for its users. Today, Google is the best search engine and it has become the best because it has strived to give its users the best quality service. The information that google transfers to its users is updated very frequently and they collect the information on their own using special softwares and expert human individuals. On Google News, the content is easily accessible and is categorized according to major keywords by which the user can search it, eg: business, world news, forex etc. Google links to other news websites all over the world so it can give its users all the latest news within minutes.