"The Deep Web"

Here I want to write an article about the obscure web. There are lots of web pages out there and sometimes it gets actually difficult to figure out which one is trustworthy. Here I will take an example of a blog and try to see whether or not you can trust a page or not. I will take the following URL, "http://www.theindiansabroad.com/2009/11/indian-students-in-usa-surpass-100000/"as an example as it is also related to the blog topic. It will be helpful for people digging into information to determine whether or not the source is reliable. 


Let us start with the domain name. There are various extensions for the domain like .com, .org, .gov, etc and also there are domain specific for each countries. Here we have a domain of .com and you cant say much from that just the domain extension. I would say most appropriate domains that could have necessary information for would be students are .com, .us, .in, .org and .gov. 


Check out the About Us page or contact us and find the source of the information. Also look who is responsible for the content. The link that we have here, the Contact page is just a plain form coded in PHP and you have no information about the author. Even the welcome page does not have any reliable information about the author. Even the page is not dated, so we do not know how old is the page. So we have to see other criteria on how reliable this source is. 


Now we can look for additional information. Look for links. See from where the references are cited. Here the references that are US India Educational Foundation (USIEF) and The Indian Embassy (press release). This is what we are exactly looking for. The information is cited from a very reliable source and can be trusted. But again there is no copy right permission. So again you can be skeptical. 


We may again check other sources. Alexa.com is a good source to check thye authenticy of a website. Alexa says that the average views of the above website is 1. pages per day on a an average. Also the number of links that Alexa says is 30. That is 30 other webpages link to this page. While Yahoo says only 14, google and bing says zero. So this is again ambiguous. 


Adding everything up, we conclude that the above page is not reliable source of information and we cant srust it. It has no credible information that could be used.