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Abstract : In the current era of internet, with continuous flow of information to web, it is a difficult task for a user to choose the right information. Information belonging to analogous type is provided by diverse service providers and it is a challenging to diagnose the reliability of information. This paper implements a framework to determine the reliability by calculating credibility value of each web portal through analyzing information published, link details, spam details of information available and updation details of web portal. Credibility score is assessed by evaluating page rank value, black list web sites, average number of hits of different pages, two quality factor values trustworthiness and timeliness. Web crawler gives page link details of varied number of web sites based on the query given by user. Finally, web sites are ranked and listed based on the credibility of web portals, which ease the job of users in assessing reliability of information available in internet.