Funnelback Search Engine

Tender description

Funnelback is the current suppliers SaaS product which includes the following components: A website content crawler, configured to scan content across the University web estate; A database which hosts all crawled content in customised collections; An administration platform which allows selected University staff to configure and control aspects of the search mechanism, its crawling and hosting configuration, and provides detailed performance reports. The current supplier is providing their Software as a Service (SaaS) product, "Funnelback", which includes the following components: - A website content crawler, configured to scan content across the University web estate; - A database which hosts all crawled content in customised collections; - An administration platform which allows selected University staff to configure and control aspects of the search mechanism, it’s crawling and hosting configuration, and provides detailed performance reports; A mechanism which, returns the most relevant results for a specific or a set of search terms, consisting of an interface delivering these by Squiz, and a bespoke, in-house developed, front-end code presenting them to the audiences using the web search. These can either access it by University websites or directly at https://search.ed.ac.uk/