Invisible Web made Visible by Factual

There is actually a lot many areas of the World Wide Web that still remain hidden to all users in spite of the ongoing efforts of all search engines. The latest foray to reach deep into the unknown or hidden web is Factual which is the brainchild of Gil Elbaz. He had earlier shot to fame for his unique search technology that he had developed; Elbaz’s company, Applied Semantics was later sold to Google which saw its rise to world domination in the field of search.

Factual can be described as an open data repository, a venture that intends to create order from chaos by allowing all users to share data on any possible subject by compartmentalizing information into database like tables. This uniqueness makes it different from Wolfram Alpha which is a computational knowledge engine that was bought out earlier this year. Factual is designed along the lines of Wikipedia and this open model is sure to encourage a lot of community participation.

Factual is going to generate a lot of interest among all web users in spite of other search engines like Google as it can find and manipulate enormous collections of data and also intelligently respond to complex queries, something the traditional search engines lack. Another advantage is that though Factual allows users to edit data, it does not allow anyone to rewrite or delete the already present data hence making it safe from corrupt net users.

Elbaz says that his vision for Factual is to be a highly accountable source of useful data rather than a lot of junk of useless information. There is a search box available on the homepage of Factual where you can type in your query and the information is displayed in a similar manner to an Excel spreadsheet. This site is sure to generate and pique the interest of a large amount of net users.

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