founded canberra australian capital territory australia december 20 2005 ; 10 years ago 2005 12 20 headquarters canberra australia area served worldwide key people dr. david hawking brett matson products funnelback hosted funnelback server for web funnelback server for enterprise funnelback platform number of employees 50 parent squiz subsidiaries united states united kingdom website www.funnelback.com funnelback is both a search engine software product and the name of the company selling the technology . funnelback software is typically deployed as a vertical search or enterprise search solution and has been cited as suitable for search based applications . 1 funnelback s headquarters and research and development is based in canberra with additional offices in sydney brisbane melbourne hobart adelaide london new york city wellington edinburgh and szczecin . the company s name is a portmanteau of two australian spiders the funnel web and redback . contents 1 history 2 clients 2.1 government 3 releases 4 technology 4.1 languages used 5 awards 6 industry analysts reception 7 availability 7.1 previous versions 8 references 9 external links history edit 2001 csiro sponsors p noptic 2 research project design and development headed by dr. david hawking 3 first version of p noptic released 2005 december funnelback spun off from csiro ict centre 4 as funnelback pty. ltd 5 2006 april p noptic product renamed funnelback october funnelback version 6.0 released 2009 july funnelback acquired by squiz 6 august operations commence in united kingdom as funnelback uk ltd. 2012 february approved supplier to uk government via g cloud 7 2015 operations commence in united states as funnelback inc. clients edit government edit funnelback has been responsible for providing several whole of government search services including australian government 8 queensland government australia australian capital territory government australia and portal search services for new south wales government australia 9 and tasmanian government australia . releases edit major funnelback product releases occur annually 10 and are generally aligned with year numbers . versions of funnelback prior to 6.0 are regarded as p noptic releases . funnelback version 15 was released in early 2016 . technology edit the core of the system is based around the proprietary parallel document retrieval engine padre 11 developed by the australian national university and csiro to perform very fast data look ups . its relevancy ranking system uses a variant of the okapi bm25 12 algorithm to rank document content and metadata . the company has also been granted patents for annotation index methods 13 used for generating search result snippets and search result sub topic identification 14 used in funnelback s contextual navigation 15 system . it has the ability to search a range of formats in addition to range of html files . these include pdf word documents excel spreadsheets images and xml . it also has the ability to connect to and index databases . adapters currently exist for mysql and trim context and the design of the system allows users to create their own connectors should they not exist . funnelback server software is designed for operation on windows and linux platforms . 16 support for solaris has been discontinued . 17 several open source software packages are bundled with funnelback 18 including the tika and mahout projects from the apache software foundation used for filtering recommendations and enterprise repository connectors respectively . languages used edit funnelback s codebase uses several programming languages groovy for filters 19 workflow commands 20 and user interface scripting 21 java for crawling 22 filtering 23 and database connectors 24 freemarker for user interface templating 25 perl for command line utility tasks 26 awards edit as p noptic 2003 search engine editor s choice network computing 27 2004 iawards aiia innovation ebusiness & internet 28 industry analysts reception edit ovum ltd. summarised the product as being able to deliver highly relevant context aware results based on a user s location interests profile or browsing history to create a truly personalised experience . 29 451 research group noted the company s 30 % revenue growth in 2010 primarily in the uk . 30 funnelback first appeared as a niche vendor on gartner s enterprise search magic quadrant in 2015 31 as squiz . in 2014 gartner s enterprise search magic quadrant mentions funnelback in passing 32 but did not place it on the quadrant . availability edit funnelback software is currently provided as a windows or linux installer software for installed customers or as a hosted service to subscribing customers either through direct sales channels or funnelback partners . previous versions edit versions of funnelback released prior to 2007 were available as 30 day trials limited to 50 000 document indexes supplied via cd rom or accessible via the funnelback website . trial versions are no longer available . in 2010 a now deprecated oem version of funnelback branded as squizsearch 33 was bundled with squiz s mysource matrix product . references edit grefenstette gregory ; wilber laura 2010 . search based applications at the confluence of search and database technologies . synthesis lectures on information concepts retrieval and services . 2 1 . doi 10.2200 s00320ed1v01y201012icr017 . p noptic intranet search . panopticsearch.com . archived from the original on 24 january 2001 . stephen e arnold . search wizards speak david hawking of funnelback arnoldit . arnoldit.com . computerworld staff . csiro spins off home grown search engine . computerworld . current details for abn 34 116 105 296 . business.gov.au . rodney gedda . csiro sells funnelback search engine . techworld . funnelback approved as a supplier for the g cloud ; the new framework of cloud service providers for the uk government . econsultancy.com . tim lohman . agimo signs funnelback for govt search . pc advisor . hamish barwick . nsw government dumps google appliance for funnelback . computerworld . funnelback . release notes . funnelback.com . hawking david 1994 . padre a parallel document retrieval engine . . proceedings of the third fujitsu parallel computing workshop kawasaki japan . funnelback . funnelback ranking algorithms . funnelback.com . hawking david . annotation index system and method . lens . uspto . retrieved 8 june 2015 . matson brett . search result sub topic identification system and method . lens . uspto . retrieved 8 june 2015 . http docs.funnelback.com contextual navigation.html funnelback . supported platforms . funnelback.com . funnelback . historical release notes . funnelback.com . funnelback . third party licences . funnelback.com . http docs.funnelback.com groovy filters.html http docs.funnelback.com pre or post command.html funnelback . user interface hook scripts funnelback documentation . docs.funnelback.com . retrieved 2016 02 28 . http docs.funnelback.com java libraries collection cfg.html funnelback . filter.classes collection.cfg funnelback documentation . docs.funnelback.com . retrieved 2016 02 28 . funnelback . database collections funnelback documentation . docs.funnelback.com . retrieved 2016 02 28 . funnelback . freemarker funnelback documentation . docs.funnelback.com . retrieved 2016 02 28 . funnelback . command line administration funnelback documentation . docs.funnelback.com . retrieved 2016 02 28 . doherty sean . panning for gold search engines editor s choice award pdf . network computing . network computing . retrieved 18 september 2003 . iawards 2004 winners . iawards . australian information industry association aiia . ovum . ovum.com . funnelback sees promise in enterprise search space that others have abandoned . 451 research group . 451 research group . gartner magic quadrant 2015 for enterprise search . white martin . gartner magic quadrant 2014 for enterprise search . intranetfocus.com . mysource matrix newsletter issue 298 . squiz labs . squiz . retrieved 8 june 2015 . external links edit funnelback corporate website funnelback product documentation david hawking s personal website coordinates 35 17 2.868 s 149 7 58.116 e 35.28413000 s 149.13281000 e 35.28413000 ; 149.13281000 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title funnelback & oldid 738709344 categories technology companies of australiasearch engine softwarecsirocompanies established in 2005companies based in canberrahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscoordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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