Funnelback, Squiz, and Content Management

August 7, 2009

Funnelback, http://funnelback.com/index.php, an enterprise organization search engine technology and services company, is now part of Squiz, http://www.squiz.co.uk, an enterprise software development company. This will combine Funnelback’s Software as a Service (SaaS) and enterprise-wide hosted search solutions with Squiz’s open-source content management system. A PR push is underway to help the companies unite; Funnelback is particularly focused on overseas expansion. “I think that there is massive potential for the enterprise search market to grow dramatically from what it is currently,” said David Hawking, Funnelback’s chief scientist, in a video interview at http://www.squiz.co.uk/resources/blog/cmsdebate-davidhawking. “I think as soon as people realize that there are effective solutions to the problem that they’re all grappling with, then the market will expand enormously.” So as Funnelback has the opportunities of this new partnership, will it embrace Squiz’s open-source CMS more tightly, or will they stick with proprietary plans? Funnelback is looking the gift horse right in the mouth, it just needs to take the reins. The goslings here in Harrod’s Creek think that this view is one more example of search vendors rotating into more lucrative markets via a positioning move.

Jessica Bratcher, August 7, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, News, Online (general), Search

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.