Why Marisei hides a result it cannot verify

The check happens before you see the link

When you search on Marisei, we gather candidate results first, then send every destination domain to Sapher for a trust assessment. Only the ones that pass are rendered into the page. There is no stage where an unverified link sits in front of you waiting to be clicked.

This ordering matters. A warning label after the fact relies on you reading it. Removing the link removes the decision.

Fail closed, not fail quiet

If Sapher cannot reach a verdict — the site is unreachable, the assessment errors, the check runs out of time — Marisei treats that as a fail and hides the result. We do not show it with an 'unverified' tag, because in practice those tags get ignored.

The cost of that choice is honest: sometimes a perfectly good local business is missing from a page because its site could not be assessed in time. We would rather show you a shorter page of results you can click without thinking than a longer one you have to police yourself.

Making it fast enough to be usable

Verifying every destination on every search is expensive, so caching does the heavy lifting. A domain's most recent assessment is reused for a period after it is made, and repeated searches across a busy afternoon mostly answer from that cache rather than re-checking the same handful of sites over and over.

When a live check times out but we hold a recent assessment for that domain, we fall back to it rather than dropping a business that was verified minutes ago. A domain we have never successfully assessed still stays hidden.

What verification is not

Appearing in Marisei results is not an endorsement, a certification, or a promise about a business's products or conduct. It means the site passed a technical trust assessment at the moment of the search. That is a narrow claim, and we prefer to state it narrowly.