Funnelback
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| Private subsidiary | |
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (December 20, 2005) |
| Headquarters | Canberra, Australia |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Dr. David Hawking Brett Matson |
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Number of employees
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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.
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.
Funnelback has been responsible for providing several whole-of-government search services including: Australian Government, Queensland Government (Australia), Australian Capital Territory Government (Australia), and portal search services for New South Wales Government (Australia) and Tasmanian Government (Australia).
Major Funnelback product releases occur annually, 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.
The core of the system is based around the proprietary Parallel Document Retrieval Engine (PADRE) 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 algorithm to rank document content and metadata. The company has also been granted patents for annotation index methods (used for generating search result snippets) and search result sub-topic identification (used in Funnelback's Contextual Navigation system).
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