{"id":8607,"date":"2010-12-03T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:15:11","slug":"duckduckgo-wot-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-wot-protection","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine DuckDuckGo Offers Users WOT Protection Against Scam Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search engine methods and secret algorithms were in the news after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/business\/28borker.html\">New York Times<\/a> wrote earlier this week about a shady online vendor who encouraged bad reviews to manipulate his site\u2019s ranking within Google. Unsuspecting customers were ripped off and abused without any indication that they were dealing with a scammer. Consumers would have been well served to see WOT&#8217;s crowd-sourced&nbsp; reputation ratings so they would know which sites are trustworthy or not. Instead, they learned from cold, hard experience.<\/p>\n<p>Search engine <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> has taken the initiative and built in the WOT safe surfing option to protect their users from clicking on untrustworthy sites with a record of bad customer service. By turning on a simple setting on DuckDuckGo\u2019s Result Settings page, searchers can see the crowd-sourced ratings collected by website reputation rating system Web of Trust (WOT.) The traffic light style WOT reputation ratings appear next to links, so users will be able to see immediately which sites are good, which are questionable and which to steer clear of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search engine methods and secret algorithms were in the news after the New York Times wrote earlier this week about a shady online vendor who encouraged bad reviews to manipulate his site\u2019s ranking within Google. Unsuspecting customers were ripped off and abused without any indication that they were dealing with a scammer. Consumers would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[1],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Search Engine DuckDuckGo Offers Users WOT Protection | WOT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DuckDuckGo now offers WOT protection, showing crowd-sourced reputation ratings to help users avoid scam websites and make safer online choices.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-wot-protection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Search Engine DuckDuckGo Offers Users WOT Protection | WOT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DuckDuckGo now offers WOT protection, showing crowd-sourced reputation ratings to help users avoid scam websites and make safer online choices.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-wot-protection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"WOT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weboftrust\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-03T18:48:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-07T10:15:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/logo-big.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"395\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"150\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alex at WOT\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Web_of_Trust\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Web_of_Trust\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alex at WOT\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-wot-protection#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-wot-protection\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alex at WOT\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ae7ad33d93b334cdbf7f10ac604f37c9\"},\"headline\":\"Search Engine DuckDuckGo Offers Users WOT Protection Against Scam Websites\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-12-03T18:48:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-07T10:15:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-wot-protection\"},\"wordCount\":184,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"General discussion\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Company &amp; 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