The Next Step in Search?

Fact Rank is a new search engine out from FacteryLabs. Rather than just organizing the results from a search, Fact Rank assumes that searchers only want the relevant information from websites and would rather not search through all of the results to find just the facts. So instead of displaying your search results in a list, Fact Rank pulls out the relevant "facts" from all of the pages that came up in your search. This way the user can see all the information instantly that would have taken multiple clicks at different websites to gather. Check out the video below to see Fact Rank in action.



Or try it out for yourself here. Honestly, this service is badass. It is like Wikipedia meets Google meets Twitter. With Fact Rank, I think search is moving one step closer to actually understanding what a user is looking for. As much as I rely on Google and will continue to use it for search (and a plethora of other services), Fact Rank understands much better what it is I'm really looking for on any given search. Google's page rank is usually incredibly helpful, but there are many times when I have to click on every website on the first results page and into the second to find what I'm looking for. Instead of going through all that, Fact Rank gives me a much more precise range of what I might be searching for. If you've been looking for something to trump Google, this just might be it.