What is FactFilter?
FactFilter is a collection of custom search engine filters to help you quickly find citable facts from trustworthy sources.
How do you define trustworthy sources?
By trustworthy sources, we mean sources that are believed to be accurate, credible, unbiased and authoritative.
For details, please refer to our Standards page.
What are citable facts?
Citable facts are facts suitable to cite for substantiation in papers, articles or reports by students, journalists and researchers.
What search engine do you use?
FactFilter leverages the power of Google Custom Search to help you filter out dross, find usable facts and save you time.
So FactFilter is all I need?
No. FactFilter is intended to complement existing research tools, not replace them.
Think of it as an extra multitool in your research toolbox.