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Google and Facebook more trusted than traditional media

Mon 28 Jun 2010 07:29:23 AM UTC — Deborah S.

 

A recent poll shows that well-known technology companies are more trusted than the popular social networking sites, and all are trusted more than traditional media sources.

The Zogby Interactive survey of U.S. adults found that among Apple, Microsoft and Google, 49% had trust in each of these brands. Twitter and Facebook were rated much more poorly, with trust levels of 8% and 13% respectively. Facebook is even more trusted than the media which 88% polled said they had little or no trust for.

Trust poll

WOT users have a high level of trust in all the companies asked about in the poll. However, some of the issues, for example, Facebook's privacy concerns, have resulted in many comments. (A site's reputation is computed from ratings, not comments.) What do you think?
  1. www.apple.com
  2. www.facebook.com
  3. www.microsoft.com
  4. www.google.com
  5. www.twitter.com
  6. www.cnn.com
  7. www.foxnews.com
  8. www.nytimes.com
  9. www.washingtonpost.com
  10. www.newscorp.com

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    • mentalist3d on Wed 30 Jun 2010
    • 08:56:51 PM UTC

    Something similar but different.....

    "Results of a recent Ofcom study in the UK found that around one-third of British school children believe Google ranks search results based on how true the source is."

    http://www.bizreport.com/2009/10/ofcom_studies_how...