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.
