University students might be buoyant to be vital but they do not appear to question Google’s ranking system, according to a new study published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The trial involved 22 undergraduate students (with various major’s subjects) from Cornell University, USA. It found that in general; the students had an intrinsic trust in Google’s aptitude to rank results by their factual bearing to the query.

“Despite the fame of search engines giant, most users are not aware of how they work and know little about the insinuations of their algorithms,” said study author Bing Pan.

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