Originally Posted by crankydave

While I think that is is possible the end user may place more "trust" in a site I'm not so sure that the way in which the information is formatted or presented would make a site more authoritative or trustworthy to a SE.

The way in which information is formatted or presented says nothing about the information itself.

ETA... An example I can think of would be an ecommerce site that displays the authorize.net seal. While this can cause the shopper to place more "trust" in a site it really says nothing to a SE.

Dave