Funnelback is a search engine for organisations that makes content from websites, intranets, databases, shared network drives and document management systems searchable. The technology began as a research project (P@noptic) at the Australian National University and CSIRO and became a separate company in 2006. Squiz acquired it in 2009. Squiz still sells and supports Funnelback and uses it as the engine of Squiz Conversational Search, which has been part of the Squiz Digital Experience Platform since 2025 and gives AI-generated answers drawn from approved content.
Funnelback was developed by Australian institutions and is owned by Squiz Pty Ltd, also an Australian company. It is proprietary software. The vendor's public information does not name hosting locations or a self-hosting option. For a European organisation this means the processing location, any transfer of data to Australia and the role of sub-processors should be settled contractually before the search service is put into use.