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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 26 February 2007 | |
  
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Fluster was developed by one of the company's original founders, Brett Matson, and is one in a series of new Funnelback technologies aimed at increasing the value of search. According to Matson, "Fluster's cascading query refinement capability enables users to drill down into more focused queries and also exposes related queries that may not have otherwise been thought of. This offers users the ability to choose the most effective combination of search and navigation." Fluster is currently available for beta testing and is set to be publicly released with Funnelback's upcoming Version 7. Funnelback offers a range of search technologies for a company's internal requirements and for publicly accessible web sites. Funnelback hosted is implemented, maintained and hosted by Funnelback on fast and secure servers; Funnelback Server for Web is implemented on a customer's in-house servers, designed for only searching public, external facing websites; Funnelback Server for Enterprise is implemented on customers in house server and can service websites, shared drives and databases. It has access controls which allow existing access controls from other applications to be utilised. This product competes with the Google search appliances, which AAPT has just announced that it will sell in Australia. Funnelback claims that tuning is its core product advantage and point of difference. "The statistics-based relevance ranking algorithm at the heart of the Funnelback query processing engine is made up of 14 weighted factors. These factors can be tuned to meet the specific needs of a website and deliver increased value results to the user." The Funnelback search engine originated as a research project (originally called P@noptic) in 1998, 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. The name Funnelback is a play on the name of two spiders – the Funnel-web and the Redback. It was chosen because a core component of the Funnelback search engine is a web spider and Funnelback's ability to rapidly funnel relevant information back to the user.{moscomment} |
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