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Telecommunications CSIRO sells Funnelback search company to Squiz
Telecommunications CSIRO sells Funnelback search company to Squiz | CSIRO sells Funnelback search company to Squiz |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 03 July 2009 | |
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The Funnelback search engine originated as a research project in 1998, originally under the name of P@noptic, by information retrieval expert Dr David Hawking in a joint venture between the CSIRO ICT Centre and the Australian National University. Even as a non-commercial research project a demand developed for the search engine and it was installed in a number of large Australian corporations. Former chairman of Funnelback, Stephen Kirkby, said the sale would give Australia a strong globally competitive IT company. "The merging of these two successful Australian IT companies bodes well for their clients and future prospects as they will have access to best of breed technology and staff. Funnelback with its strong scientific CSIRO-based intellectual property (IP) foundation, combined with Squiz's commitment to best of breed service on the open source platform, gives Australia a strong globally competitive IT company." Funnelback was formed in early 2006 to commercialise the technology and early 2007 it filed patents for its clustering engine, Fluster. Funnelback's flagship product, Funnelback Enterprise, is billed "an integrated, industrial strength search solution that searches content assets across Internet, intranet, database and shared network drives, as well as electronic document management and portal systems."
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