1. Funnelback 13
New Features

2. Outline
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Social media
Curator
Recommender
Default form
Modern UI search sessions
Modern UI improvements (cache, DLS)
Result collapsing
Auto-complete improvements
ManifoldCF

3. Social Media
● Built-in support for
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Facebook
Flickr
Twitter
Youtube
● Still requires some custom coding work to
tell Funnelback what accounts etc. to gather.

4. Curator
● An enhanced version of best bets
● Actions
Promote URLs to the top of the results
○ Remove URLs from the result set
○ Display blocks (adverts, messages etc)
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● Triggers
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Query based (like best bets)
Date/time based (Only during University term)
Location based (Only for queries from China)

5. Recommender system
● Given a page, what other pages are useful?
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Courses in a course finder
Products in a product catalog
● Based on click associations or text similarity
● Would need to be integrated into target
website directly or with JavaScript, or using
a ‘bookmarklet’ as we’ll show.

6. New default form
● Based on Bootstrap 3.0 + Gordon’s work
● Responsive
● All your usual features plus:
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Geolocation in advanced search
Tools (Performance, Query syntax tree)

7. Modern UI search sessions
● Stores information about individual search
users and their actions over time.
● Result click history
● Search query history
○ Integrated with autocompletion
● Result ‘shopping cart’
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With custom actions on the cart

8. Modern UI now supports...
● Click tracking
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Also tracks autocompletion use (but no reports yet)
● Cached copies
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Provides easier ways to change page presentation
● Document Level Security
● No excuse for using Classic UI anymore
Removed support for creating Classic UI collections
○ Modern UI doesn’t support ‘related queries’ or
‘tagging’ (because they don’t seem to be used)
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9. Result collapsing
● Allows multiple results to be ‘collapsed’ into
one entry on the result page (and a drill
down action to see them).
● Useful if you have many versions of the same
document or some other ‘grouping’ need

10. Autocomplete
improvements
● Select facets from query completion

11. ManifoldCF
● Replacement for EntropySoft connectors
● Open source
○ No cost for connectors, but no official support either
● Supports
○ Sharepoint, Alfresco, LiveLink, Documentum,
FileNet, Dropbox, Google Drive, Jira
and a few others.
● Does not support
○ Lotus Notes/Domino
○ Exchange
○ Symantec Enterprise Vault
○ Oracle UCM