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YNIX Source Trust Score Methodology
The Source Trust Score rates the citation signal behind a source, not the quality of a product or the truth of every claim on the cited page.
Score components
- Source type, 40 points: public-interest, standards, testing, editorial, or official-provider provenance.
- Freshness, 25 points: source checked date relative to the export date.
- Completeness, 20 points: title, URL, publisher, checked date, and article context.
- Transparency, 15 points: HTTPS source URL and article-level source count of at least three.
Caveats
- The score is deterministic and local to this MVP.
- Provider pages can be authoritative for their own plans and prices, but they are not independent reviews.
- Scores should be editorially reviewed before they influence ranking or recommendations.