Funnelback is both an enterprise search engine and the name of the company selling the technology. Funnelback is used by many Australian universities and government organisations to search for information on their websites, intranets, file-shares and databases.
Funnelback was originally developed by the CSIRO as part of a research project, then called "P@noptic". The initial design and development was headed up by Dr. David Hawking, a researcher ...
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Funnelback is both an enterprise search engine and the name of the company selling the technology. Funnelback is used by many Australian universities and government organisations to search for information on their websites, intranets, file-shares and databases.
Funnelback was originally developed by the CSIRO as part of a research project, then called "P@noptic". The initial design and development was headed up by Dr. David Hawking, a researcher on search technologies. With its initial launch in 2001 as P@noptic, and with the research weight of CSIRO behind it, it quickly attracted some high profile clients. With its rapid commercial success, it was spun off from the CSIRO ICT Centre as its own company in February 2006. In July 2009 Funnelback was purchased by Squiz.
Despite being spun off from CSIRO, it still retains close research links with them and jointly publishes papers. Research is currently underway in the areas of search types, subject-specific search, realistic applications...
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