What is Factual Inc.?
Factual is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a comprehensive directory of restaurants along with dozens of searchable attributes, a huge database of published books, or a list of every video game and their cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data. Factual’s key product, the Factual Table, provides a unique way to view and work with structured data. Information in Factual Tables comes from the wisdom of the community and from our powerful data mining tools, and the result is rich, dynamic, and transparent data. Factual was founded by Gil Elbaz, who co-founded Applied Semantics in 1998. Applied Semantics was a leader in natural language solutions and developed the ASI AdSense contextual advertising platform. It was acquired by Google in 2003.
