Web research
The whole web, or only the sites you trust.
Some answers live outside the statute: a regulator's guidance, a gazette notice, a court's practice direction. Web research lets Factum search the live web and cite what it finds, and lets you decide where it looks: everything, a shortlist of official sites, or both.
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Search modes
You decide where Factum looks
Add the websites you trust once. Then choose, per conversation, how strictly to apply them.
Whole web
No focus list. Factum searches the open web and cites what it uses.
Only these sites
Results come only from the websites you selected, nothing else.
Focus + whole web
Your sites are searched first and preferred; the rest of the web fills the gaps.
How it works
Official sources, on purpose
A general search engine ranks by popularity. Legal work needs the authoritative page, and the way to get it is to say where it lives.
Focus list
Tell Factum which websites count
Add the domains you rely on: the regulator, the official gazette, the tax authority, the court. The list is yours, saved to your account, and can be changed at any time.
- Any domain, added in seconds
- Select all or a subset per conversation
- A badge shows how many sites are in focus
Search
Search the live web, with the law beside it
Ask the question. Factum searches the web in real time, within your focus if you set one, and reads the results together with the consolidated legislation, so the guidance and the article it interprets arrive in the same answer.
- Real-time results, not a cached corpus
- Law and web read together
- Works in Manual, Hybrid and Auto mode
Sources
Every result is a citation
The web pages Factum used are listed as sources with the answer, like articles and decisions. You see which page said what, and you can open it.
- Web sources listed with every answer
- Kept distinct from statutory sources
- Nothing cited that was not read
In practice
Questions that need the live web
Three requests where the answer changed after the statute was printed.
Regulator's guidance
What does the data protection authority's latest guidance say about cookie consent banners? Use only the authority's website.
Gazette notice
Has the minimum wage decree for next year been published in the official gazette? Give me the amount and the publication date.
Practice direction
Find the Supreme Court's current practice direction on electronic filing and summarise the formatting requirements.
Why it matters
What changes in research
The web becomes a source you can cite rather than a tab you cannot.
Official
pages first, because you said which ones
Current
the guidance as published today, read next to the article it interprets
Cited
every web page listed as a source, open in one click
Questions
Questions about Web research
See it on your own documents
A 30-minute walkthrough with the team, in your jurisdiction, on a file you choose.
No. It is off in every new conversation and you switch it on when a question needs it. That keeps statutory answers purely on consolidated law unless you decide otherwise.
