Funnelback on the Move
July 5, 2009
Funnelback, an Australian enterprise search company, continues to land customers. In the US, the company licensed its search system to Pacific Network TV. Jim Tink posted a news story about the tie up on the Funnelback Web site. A reader in Australia told me that Funnelback has been added to the approved vendors list for the government of New South Wales. If you want more information about the company, you can explore the company’s Web site.
In a nutshell, Funnelback is a search system that includes a range of features, including folksonomy tagging, clustering, faceted navigation, and geospatial query processing. The company describes its system this way:
The core of the Funnelback search tool is its ranking function. Our ranking function combines many sources of evidence, such as the content and structure of the document, internal and external metadata, website structure, link structure, user interaction data, publication dates, and external textual annotations such as anchortext and tags. In order to achieve accurate and reliable rankings, we extract as much useful evidence as possible and weight it according to its value and reliability. All of the components of the system are well engineered and standards compliant while tolerant of prevalent violations of standards found in most applications. Data gathering components are able to recognize duplicate and near-duplicate content/sites. Our text filters reliably extract text content and metadata for indexing. Our link analysis tools recognize subtle affiliations as well as obvious ones. The indexer must know what to index and what not to index.
For more information, you can download Funnelback’s eight page white paper.
Stephen Arnold, July 5, 2009
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