In the News
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...