6. What do you get?
• New, state of the art crawl and query
software
• New, faster hardware
• Better control of crawl and query tuning
• A number of new features...
7. Initial new features
• Query autocomplete
• Raven-authenticated crawling for ‘internal’
search (along with crawling from a CUDN
IP address)
8. What you might notice
• User agent:
FunnelBack (search-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk)
FunnelBack (internal search; search-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk)
• Crawler hostname/IP address
• Raven-authenticated spidering
• Details of the query syntax
• Access to machine-readable results
9. Where are we?
• Test systems installed, test crawls underway
• Production configuration being established
• Version of search.cam with Funnelback
under development
• Cut-over deployment later this calendar
year?