What is the different between credible and non-credible website?

Answer 1

A credible site would be one such as Microsoft homepage; you are pretty much assured that they won't attack your PC in any way. One of those pornography sites on the other hand, could pose a serious security risk to a person's computer. That would be a non credible site.

Answer 2

A credible site would be one such as Microsoft homepage; you are pretty much assured that they won't attack your PC in any way. One of those pornography sites on the other hand, could pose a serious security risk to a person's computer.

Answer 3

Credible website are trusty websites usually funded by government, scientific, or college associations, or approved by the government. Usually the end in .edu, .gov, and .org. Non credible websites are websites by people who post their opinions or their opinions of a fact, like this website, online. Anyone can can make a .com or .net site easily and say whatever they chose to.

Answer 4

The credibility or vice versa of the website depends upon many factors:

1. Domain extensions like .com, .edu, .gov, etc. have higher credibility generally.
2. How old the domain is.
3. Accessibility of the domain on search engines.
4. If the information supplied by the website is objective
5. If the author who provided information is submitting his opinion or these are the facts.

Examples of credible websites are:

1) wikipedia

2) bbc

3) S&P Website

4) IMF Website

5) The World Factbook

6) NASA

7) ISRO

Low Credibility

Thrive online - A health website with low credibility

Answer 5

Typically an instructor will tell you which sources they consider credible. However, a credible website would be one that ends in .edu , or .gov and sometimes .org. Additionally, credible websites can be found through academic databases or through your library's website. None credible sources are websites that can be modified by members of the public such as Wikipedia. Sites like Wikipedia are great to get your ideas going, and then you can reference academic websites for the rest of your research.

Answer 6

In a non-credible website anyone can post silliness on any page in the web. This information can be false because we do not know who was behind the computer screen typing this information. On the other hand a credible website would be a good source to get information from where you are certain you are getting straight facts. In example, when searching for facts about cancer a non-credible site would be someones blog loosely talking about Cancer. A credible site would be obtaining information from Cancer.org, which in fact is a government base site.

Answer 7

a credible website is one in which you can rely on the information in it. Visa versa for a non credible website.