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August 2010 - Scottish Care Commissions Funnelback

April 2010 - London School of Economics launches Funnelback Search

March 2010 - The UK Electoral Commission Select Funnelback Website Search to Enable Fast, Accurate Searching and Contextual Navigation

January 2010 - Funnelback Version 9 Released – Includes New Reporting System, Pattern Detection and Numerous Feature Improvements

January, 2010 - Funnelback Drives New Zealand Automobile Association Search. Funnelback is now driving the New Zealand Automobile Association’s (AA) external website search service. The Funnelback search service can be accessed through the AA website www.aa.co.nz

December, 2009 - Funnelback Search Live on ARCHI Portal. Funnelback has signed a deal with the Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations to provide a sophisticated search service across their web portal: http://www.archi.net.au

December, 2009 - Funnelback Opens London Office. The Funnelback UK office will service new and existing clients in the UK and Europe.

December, 2009 - Funnelback signs search deal with APN News & Media. Funnelback will provide search for the APN Online Division in Australia, a leading online publisher in regional markets in Australia. 

September, 2009 - Funnelback, in alliance with Agileware, provides search solution for Land & Water Australia. The new Natural Resource Management (NRM) Navigator web site has been developed by Agileware for Land & Water Australia, with search provided by Funnelback.

September, 2009 - Funnelback presents at Gartner event. Funnelback raised the critical importance of search at the well attended Gartner-Squiz-Funnelback event entitled 'Supported Open Source Software' in Sydney on 27th August, 2009.  

July, 2009 - Australian Government business portal goes live with Funnelback search . The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) business portal, www.business.gov.au, is the latest high profile Commonwealth agency to use Funnelback search through the Whole of Government AgencySearch program sponsored by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO).  

July, 2009 - NSW Department of Health in good shape with Funnelback . The NSW Department of Health has launched the Funnelback SaaS Hosted search service for its web site: www.health.nsw.gov.au

July, 2009 - Centrelink Goes Live with Funnelback AgencySearch . The Centrelink website search is now being powered by Funnelback.

July, 2009 - Funnelback acquired by Squiz. Squiz has concluded a transaction with CSIRO to acquire search engine company Funnelback Pty Ltd.

May, 2009 - Funnelback approved for NSW Government ICT Services Approved Supplier Panel. Funnelback is now eligible to provide internet and enterprise search services for the NSW Government.

March, 2009 - Funnelback opens new headquarters and grows staff numbers. The Chief Minister of the ACT, Jon Stanhope, today officially opened Funnelback's new headquarters in Dickson in Canberra.

November, 2008 - Savvy CIOs impressed by MIS Rising Star Funnelback. Funnelback has been awarded “Rising Star” status in this year’s MIS Strategic 100 Annual Edition.

November, 2008 - PacificNetwork.tv has launched the Funnelback SaaS Hosted search service for its web and video library: http://pacificnetwork.tv

November, 2008 - Funnelback contributes to three important scientific search events. Funnelback’s leading research scientist Professor David Hawking recently returned to the Funnelback office after representing the company at three scientific search events. The Information Retrieval Facility Symposium 2008, SPIRE 2008 and the Next Generation Search workshop.

October, 2008 - Funnelback Search for Bank of Queensland. The search service on the Bank of Queensland’s website www.boq.com.au is now powered by Funnelback. The 4 year deal signed between Funnelback and Bank of Queensland uses Funnelback’s fully hosted SaaS search service.

August, 2008 - Multiple Simultaneous Funnelback Search for National Prescribing Service. The National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS) has launched a sophisticated and effective deployment of the Funnelback Hosted search service for its new web site, http://www.nps.org.au/.

July, 2008 - Dr. David Hawking appointed Chief Scientist of Funnelback. Leading research scientist, Dr David Hawking, has formally departed CSIRO to take up an appointment as full time Chief Scientist with Funnelback.

June, 2008 - Funnelback Version 8 is now available. Canberra, Australia – Funnelback has just released version 8 of its search engine technology.

April, 2008 - Funnelback launches new search for Telstra. Telstra has gone live with the Funnelback Hosted search service for its telecommunications site, www.nowwearetalking.com.au.

December, 2007 - Queensland Government to use Funnelback. Funnelback Pty Ltd has today announced that it has signed a 3 year deal to provide website search services for the whole of Queensland Government.

November, 2007 - Funnelback Wins Geoscience Search Tender. Canberra, Australia - November 12, 2007 - Funnelback has today announced that it has won the tender to provide a full Enterprise Search solution for Geoscience Australia.

November, 2007 - Funnelback announced as finalist in the Leaping Frog Award (Froggy). Canberra, Australia - November 7, 2007 - The Froggy award recognises Federal Government ICT market suppliers that achieved the fastest rate of sales growth over three years as measured by their aggregate annual contract value.

November, 2007 - Funnelback Launches New Search for CareerOne. Funnelback has announced that it recently launched the new search service for News Limited’s high profile online recruitment website CareerOne, www.careerone.com.au.

October, 2007 - Funnelback Version 7 is now available. Funnelback has just released version 7 of its search engine technology.

June, 2007 - Funnelback launches search on the ABC. Building on our successful five year relationship with the ABC, Funnelback has launched a range of new exciting features on the ABC News website. These new features include geospatial, multimedia and clustered search. All of which will add to the user's experience and their ability to access online content in new and innovative ways.

February, 2007 - Funnelback invents its own, unique Clustering Engine. Enterprise search software vendor Funnelback has lodged a provisional patent application for its unique clustering engine - Fluster.

February, 2007 - Funnelback Wins Australian Government Search Deal. Funnelback Pty Ltd has won a two year contract to provide search for the Australian Government’s online entry point www.australia.gov.au.

January, 2007 - Funnelback releases the latest version of its Internet & enterprise search engine. Internet & enterprise search engine company Funnelback has just released Funnelback version 6 of its software as a service and server based search engine platform.

January, 2007 - Funnelback invents superior indexing system for document annotations. Funnelback has lodged a provisional patent application for an invention to provide an efficient form of indexing documents based on external descriptions.

February, 2006 - CSIRO announces search engine spin off. The CSIRO ICT Centre today announced that its enterprise search technology, P@NOPTIC, has been spun off to form a new company, Funnelback Pty Ltd. Funnelback is already used to power the search on websites of major Australian organisations such as the Australian Government Information Management Office, Westpac Banking Corporation, the Australian Stock Exchange, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Ninemsn.

 


In the news

July 29 , 2008 -
Funnelback CTO Interview Now Available. Dr. David Hawking, the chief technical officer of Funnelback, joins Funnelback full time. An interview with David Hawking by Stephen Arnold.

September 11, 2007 - Giant leap for the search unknown. Beverley Head asks the experts (including Dr. David Hawking) how close the world's web-trawlers are to a "Google-killer" breakthrough.

February 7, 2007 - IDM.net.au - Rankings, Relevance and the Daily Australian Crawl. The Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, has announced that Funnelback Pty Ltd has secured a further two year contract to provide search engine services on the Australia.gov.au website, the online entry point for the Australian Government.

December 12 , 2006 - The Australian - Ambition. Jason Bresnehan has been appointed chief executive of Australian enterprise search-engine company Funnelback.

June 27, 2006 - Sydney Morning Herald - Arms race in business search tools. Ask anyone spruiking search systems and they will tell you that most of us spend much of our time looking for information rather than using the knowledge we've found...

February 22, 2006 - Australian IT - CSIRO spins off search group. Australia's peak science body CSIRO has spun off its state-of-the-art web search technology to form a new company.

March 18, 2005 - ZDNet Australia - Aust government upgrades search. The Australian government Internet entry point has been upgraded with a new facility that allows users to conduct searches across federal, state and territory government Web sites.

February 11, 2005 - Award to search leader. Dr David Hawking has been awarded the inaugural Chris Wallace Award for Research Contribution from the Computing Research and Education Association (CORE).

May 28, 2004 - Computerworld - Banks get search lessons from CSIRO. Inadequate information search facilities may be costing Australia's banks more than just a bruised ego, according to CSIRO principal research scientist, David Hawking.

September 18, 2003 - Network Computing - Panning for Gold. Funnelback (formerly Panoptic) achieved the best performance in navigational searches, proved to be the best indexer out of the box and offers the best price-to-feature ratio. And best of all, installation and configuration were a breeze compared with other searches which required a number of postinstallation steps to configure IIS and enable the file system for use.

 

 

 

 

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