Ovum Review Shows Funnelback Search Company to be Winning
December 29, 2013
For a perfectly balanced and objective review read the summarized report titled Ovum Technology Audit of Funnelback Search on funnelback.com. You can download the report for free in its entirety, but what appears in summary seems to be a good indicator of the sort of information you will receive.
The report explores Funnelback closely, noting that the company:
“offers organisations [sic] rapid time-to-value for a wide range of search functions at a relatively low cost. The variety of deployment options available ensures that the solution can address most organisational IT architecture requirements… Funnelback includes a highly intuitive contextual navigation function, which dynamically creates filters across unstructured and semi-structured content across many information sources… In addition, there is a behavioural learning capability, which automatically monitors the search patterns of users and tunes the algorithms to their requirements to deliver more personalised results.”
The report did fail to mention that the Australian search engine technology company’s name comes from the combining of two Australian spiders, the funnel-web and redback. It is also meant to imply the company’s objective of funneling data and important information back to the customer. Ovum‘s five star “report” interrupts itself to applaud Funnelback’s functionality and SaaS solution several times, so perhaps there simply wasn’t room.
Chelsea Kerwin, December 29, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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Again, anything which “personalizes” search is going to take out any possibility of serendipity and useful alternatives of the search…automatically…and the searcher may not see what needs to be seen depending on their needs, creativity and endeavor.
I for one would stay away from such engines if I could. Or look for meta search engines which combine others.
If I were a program, I’d write my own webbot or spider to find what’s hidden.