Factery

SAN FRANCISCO There's a new race in the Internet search business and, like most races, it's about speed. Start-ups including LeapFish, Factery and Aardvark hope to lap the field by supplementing conventional search results, such as what...

In this article: Twitter, Aardvark, LeapFish, Google, Microsoft, and Bing

...a flood information in all the links posted by users on social sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. Now a startup called Factery wants to help you dig up the facts in those links with a new technology called FactRank (the name is a nod...

In this article: Twitter, Cloud computing, Delicious, Stanford University, and California Newspaper Publishers Association

...startup did not respond to a request for more details. Founded by search marketers Paul Pedersen and Dale Johnson, the goal is for Factery to be a source of "simple, useful answers" to searcher's questions-sort of a hybrid of a semantic...

In this article: CBS Interactive, Ask.com, Twitter, and Yahoo

...include Twitter, Rupture (which was acquired by Electronic Arts), HeadMix, Docverse, Kyte.tv, Scoopler, Topsy, Bit.ly, CoTweet, Fliggo, Factery, TweetDeck, and Twitvid. He also has a bunch of other investments in Web companies where...

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Posted by: Rob Hof on November 17 Despite Google's inexorable gains in Internet search market share, search startups (and behemoths) keep trying to improve upon the search giant's results. Factery Labs, debuting early Nov. 17, aims to...

In this article: Google, Barack Obama, Yahoo, Powerset, Twitter, Yoomba, U.S. Venture Partners, and Delicious

New start-up Factery Labs is launching its first service on Tuesday, a technology called FactRank that can tear through Web pages and collect what it calls "facts." These are bits of information from each source page that Factery Labs'...

In this article: Twitter, CNET, Sobees, FriendFeed, Google, and Chrome OS

New Website and Developer API Give Searchers Facts not Links MENLO PARK, Calif. - Factery Labs, a search technology company, today announced the launch of its FactRank technology, a new way for people to find information on the web.

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Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link on that search result page. That's what a new service...

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by Jason Kincaid on November 17, 2009 When you go to search the web, is it because you want to read through a lengthy article related to a subject, or do you just want the facts that answer your question? Factery Labs, a new service that's...

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One of the first social networking aggregators to take advantage of LinkedIn's brand-new API is Sobees, whose two client applications both now offer LinkedIn integration in addition to the other supported networks. A challenger to similar...

In this article: Sobees, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, TweetDeck, Linux, Seesmic, Silverlight, MySpace, and Microsoft