Trust with a Web site is a hard thing to build, if you do not know who runs the Web site or what they are after exactly. Going through random Google searches, you are bound to trip over a bad Web site every once in a while. How can you tell if a search link is good or bad? You need the TrustWatch Search Extension by GeoTrust.

Here is what the author of the extension has to say about it.

This extension uses the popular TrustWatch anti-phishing service so you can see real-time/in-line site rating information for all your search results.

Also, you can report suspicious sites for fraud or phishing and see a detailed site report about the web site at your fingertips.

Other features allow you to submit fraudulent webmail with a simple right click report function.

A lot of existing TrustWatch users asked to have the same trust search features on trustwatch.com available when doing searches on sites like Google, Yahoo! etc. So, here is our first stab at it, have fun!

If you want an alternative that pretty much does the same thing, you might take a look at McAfee’s SiteAdvisor.

This Firefox extension is for versions 1.0 and up of the browser. If you want to download it and try it out for yourself, you can do so at the Mozilla Update Web site.

[tags]firefox,extensions,trust,bad links,trustwatch[/tags]