Editorial Standards & Corrections
Searches.com separates verifiable product facts, editorial judgment, and original testing. This page defines the rules we use so readers—and machines interpreting our pages—can tell which kind of claim they are reading.
Documented fact
A claim supported by first-party documentation or another clearly identified primary source, such as current pricing, stated privacy practices, or a product feature.
Editorial judgment
Our interpretation of who a tool is best for, its tradeoffs, or how useful it is for a particular job. Scores are editorial assessments, not crowd ratings or laboratory measurements.
Original test result
A finding produced by a documented Searches.com test protocol. We publish the test date, task set, scoring rule and limitations when we make this kind of claim.
Source hierarchy
- Primary product documentation: official pricing, help centers, technical documentation, privacy policies and product announcements.
- Primary institutional sources: government databases, universities, standards bodies and original research publishers.
- High-quality secondary sources: used when a primary source is unavailable or when independent context is necessary.
- Searches.com observations: labeled as editorial analysis or original testing rather than presented as vendor fact.
Freshness rules
Changeable facts such as pricing, access limits, product names and major capabilities should carry a verification date on upgraded profiles. A page update date does not imply that every external fact changed that day; it records the last substantive editorial review.
How we handle uncertainty
If a claim cannot be verified confidently, we omit it, qualify it, or identify the uncertainty. We do not turn vendor marketing language into an independent fact without attribution. A citation beside an AI-generated answer also does not automatically prove the cited source supports every nearby statement.
Corrections
If you find an outdated price, broken source, unsupported claim or material error, use the Contact page. Corrections are evaluated against the strongest available source and applied without requiring a commercial relationship.