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Welcome to the Credibility Commons

Welcome to the Credibility Commons web site.


Currently, we are sunsetting the Credibility Commons project. Our most recent study compared people’s perceptions of credibility of search results obtained from a human-screened collection and those obtained from a popular search engine. Study results will be available shortly.

Reference Extract is a follow up project.


The Credibility Commons’ goal is to improve access to credible information on the Internet. The Commons is operated by the Information School at the University of Washington and the Information Institute of Syracuse University and is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s ‘Applying Technology To Make A Difference’ Technology Grant. We have worked on a number of projects related to Internet credibility, including user studies and software tools.


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Maintained by the Information School and The Information Institute of Syracuse. Sponsored by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Licensed under a Creative Commons License.