Funnelback’s major advantage over competitive products is its world-leading ranking algorithms backed by an extensive research and development programme. Currently, the quality of Funnelback’s ranking algorithms is most visible when searching websites, where Funnelback is able to identify important information resources on a topic and rank them ahead of documents which merely match the query. In addition, the core weighting factors that underpin the result ranking algorithm can be tuned to meet specific result ranking needs of an organisation. This is accompanied by query tuning features which enable configuration of search results based on query terms.
The Funnelback board is supported by Funnelback's Managing Director, Mr Brett Matson and Executive Director, Mr Stuart Beil. Leading research scientist and original founder of the company, Professor David Hawking, continues to lead product development and innovation at Funnelback as Chief Scientist. Funnelback's experienced technical team are split between Research and Development, headed by Francis Crimmins, and Products and Services, headed by Alwyn Davis.
Funnelback’s mission is to provide clients with leading edge information retrieval solutions coupled with quality customer support. Funnelback is a fast growing technology company. A core part of our strategy is to accelerate this momentum by investing more heavily in three key areas of the business.
- Research and development
- Sales and business development, including international expansion
- Technical pre-sales and customer support
Like any company, Funnelback is continually seeking to implement organisational improvement initiatives to maximise the return on our human and capital assets.
The Funnelback search engine project evolved from a leading edge technology offering developed during an eight year project by the