Funnelback CTO Interview Now Available
July 29, 2008
Dr. David Hawking, the chief technical officer of Funnelback, has joined the search and content processing company full time. Dr. Hawking is well known among the information retrieval community. His students have joined Google and Microsoft Research. Dr. Hawking’s interview with ArnoldIT.com is now available as part of the Search Wizards Speak series at www.arnoldit.com/search-wizards-speak.
Dr. Hawking said that Funnelback, now in version 8, delivers search ranking quality and tunability, geospatial query processing, folksonomy tagging of search results, streamlined set up and configuration, customizable work flows, and a software as a service option. In short, Funnelback is a capable enterprise search solution.,
Located in Canberra, Australia, the Funnelback system has a number of high profile clients in Australia and New Zealand. The company also has clients in the United Kingdom and Canada.,
Dr. Hawking said,
Funnelback includes an intuitive Web based administration interface for configuration, user interface customization and viewing query reports. No programming skills are required for the majority of configuration tasks, but deeper integrations can be achieved by developing specific interfaces to work with various enterprise application such as content management systems or portal applications.
The next release of Funnelback will appear in the first half of 2009. The company has plans to expand into other countries, but Dr. Hawking would not reveal specific plans for new offices. He hinted that Funnelback is working on solutions for vertical markets. The company already has a vertical implementation for one of Australia’s law enforcement agencies. That project has been well received by the users.
You can read the full text of the interview here. Information about the company is here.
Stephen Arnold, July 29, 2008
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