WOT 20080811

WOT (Web of Trust) is a web service developed to help users to be safer when surfing the Internet. It is an add-on for Firefox that will tell you if a website is harmful, safe or probably harmful.

In WOT, users are who rate the different websites, so it makes the service to be much better than other arguably services like SiteAdvisor, mainly because its database is updated continuously.

WOT is very easy to use, When you search for a certain term through Google, Yahoo, Gmail or Wikipedia you'll see a colored ring next to the result, the color of the ring will advice you about that website. Red is dangerous, yellow can be dangerous and green means that the website is trusted.

WOT takes into account the privacy, children safety, trustworthiness and vendor reliability and you can rate any website at any time.

Finally, in case you access a website marked as dangerous, it will show a warning advise.