Teens in Britain think Google shows most relevant and truthful results at top

 According to the report titled “UK children’s media literacy – 2009” by Ofcom about 1/3 of British secondary school pupils believe that Google ranks the search results in its query response according to their truthfulness. 

The report says 37% of children believe results are listed beginning with the most useful and relevant. On the other end 14% of pupils aged 12 to 15 admitted that they know websites pay to search engines for the top spots.

About 18% admitted they had no knowledge of how Google and other search engines rank their results which is up from 4% recorded last year.

Meantime, the report reveals that when it comes to social networking sites the children show more concern about their privacy and security. 69% of 12 to 15 years old say they restrict access to their profiles which is a 10% above the results reported a year ago.