Gil Elbaz interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011

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Factual offers a Global Place database of about 40 million places spanning 44 countries delivered by download or API and built by aggregating partner feeds (sometimes free) plus web crawling and Hadoop-style processing. The platform applies extraction and normalization algorithms to pick the correct phone numbers, addresses and deduplicate records. Claim is that open sharing plus these cleaning tools yields higher quality, and the company demonstrates a working data product developers can plug into.

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