New Features in Version 11
Version 11 of the Funnelback Search engine, launched on the 2nd of September 2011, includes a host of valuable new features. They include:
- Automated Search Quality Analysis: Measure and track search quality over time.
- Automated Search Tuning: Automated tuning to ensure the search engine produces the best results for your organisation.
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Content Optimiser
- Detailed analysis on how and why pages rank the way they do.
- Dynamically generated step-by-step guide on how to increase Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for any given page. Increases the visibility of your content to global search engines.
- Broken Links Checking: A full list of broken links on your website.
- People Search: A fast and effective way to find people in your organisation.
- Fresher Search Results: A more sophisticated index structure to ensure that up-to-date results are returned.
- More Efficient Web Crawling: Reduces the load on your web server and ensures indexes are kept fresh.
- Preview Configuration Changes: Administrators can test search configuration changes prior to go-live.
- Enhanced Search User Interface: A faster and more flexible user interface for customising the presentation of search results.
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Query Blending
- Automatically expand queries into multiple related queries for a more contextualised search experience.
- Expand queries to include spelling corrections, synonyms and custom business rules. For example, a search for ‘job’ can be configured to search also for ‘career’ using synonym rules from the blending configuration file.
- Full support for 64 bit platforms
- Query Completion (aka autocomplete) based on structured business data.
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