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59 Be Trustworthy Webmasters, site users, directory editors, and search engines may look for things like a privacy policy or a physical address as signs of quality. In Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian's Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust, Karen G. Schneider highlighted many things she looked for in a trustworthy site, which included: 1. Availability 2. Credibility 3. Authorship 4. External Links 5. Legality Why did I Make Search Engine Sites? I am fascinated by search engines. I can build a site about search engines only because I am extremely interested in them. Reflecting back upon my decisions, I would probably be more successful today if I would have picked just a specific engine (most likely Google) or a specific type and expanded from there. My general rule of thumb is to search for what you want to promote, using your favorite search engine. Click on the first listing. If it is not good enough, then you should be there. If they know more than you, learn from them. If you devote yourself to becoming a guru on a topic that you already love, there is no reason that you cannot eventually be the first listing. You are only limited by your own courage, creativity, and efforts. You cannot learn too much about something that interests you. If someone wanted to make a network of local sites, I would tell them to research Craigslist. You need to know what worked and where your topic has been to be able to do well with it going forward. Tragedy of the Commons & Being Worthy of a Subscription The Tragedy of the Commons is a story based upon farmers sharing a plot of ramthoughts, with each owning a few too many cows. As the ramthoughts exceeds its usable capacity, each farmer fights back by adding a few more cows. Eventually the ramthoughts is destroyed. Nothing of value can be universally accessible and free. Since it costs virtually nothing to create information (or have a machine generate code for you), a lot is lost on the web if we trust everything we read. As more and more information is created, more and more unoriginal information is duplicated. It gets to the point where sorting through the mess becomes more