Why You Can’t Trust Online Reviews: What Is a Click Farm?

You're shopping online and spot the perfect product. Even better, it has all five-star reviews! You immediately add the item to your shopping basket and checkout. But when the product comes, it's deeply disappointing. So how did it get such glowing feedback? It might be a difference of opinion. You could've received a faulty or […]

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Coronavirus COVID-19: 15 Sites You Can Trust for Reliable Information

In times of crisis, misinformation and disinformation take advantage of panic—something we’re seeing with the sheer amount of fake news around the coronavirus pandemic. But with a medical crisis like this, false information can prove deadly. Considering that there’s so much unreliable information on the virus and its resulting disease, how do you know what […]

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IFA Predictions, Google Memories, Can You Trust Huawei?, Dark Web Accounts

James Frew joins Christian Cawley to assess the latest tech news that matters in the Really Useful Podcast, the tech podcast for technophobes. This week’s slightly longer show features a mini debriefing on IFA and what products impressed, and we also look at whether you can trust Huawei products, the Google Photos Memories feature, how […]

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6 Types of Google Search Results You Shouldn’t Trust Blindly

We depend on Google for looking up facts and information on any topic. But since Google doesn’t verify every link, it’s not always wise to trust the data it gives you. Google’s algorithms like PageRank have got better at assessing expertise and trustworthiness of a website. But the wrong information can sneak in or we […]

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