Technique for providing a reliable trust indicator to a webpage

A method comprising performing a machine-executed operation involving instructions, wherein the machine-executed operation is at least one of:

• A) sending said instructions over transmission media;
• B) receiving said instructions over transmission media;
• C) storing said instructions onto a machine-readable storage medium;
• and
• D) executing the instructions;
• wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause:
• receiving a request to display information in association with a particular webpage, wherein said information is based on a value that is selected from a group consisting of:
• a link count indicating a number of links from a plurality of linking webpages to said particular webpage;
• a tag count indicating a number of tags that have been associated with said particular webpage by a plurality of users who have visited said particular webpage, wherein each tag of said tags is (a) one or more words and (b) created by a user of the plurality of users to describe content of the particular webpage subsequent to the creation of said particular webpage;
• and
• a trust rank that a web crawler, which is associated with an entity that receives the request, associates with said particular webpage, wherein the trust rank is based, at least in part, on a plurality of tags that were created by a plurality of users that visited the particular webpage, that describe content of said particular webpage, and that have been associated with said particular webpage subsequent to the creation of said particular webpage;
• in response to said request, sending said information toward a web browser application for said web browser application to display said information in association with said particular webpage.