Macquarie University has announced that it will roll out Funnelback's search engine across its entire web presence before the end of the year in order to better deliver on the information finding needs of its staff, students and local and international community.

"With around 35,000 students, 6000 staff and more than 100,000 alumni living in over 100 countries worldwide, Macquarie has a large community and a large website to match - with literally hundreds of thousands of web pages within the Macquarie domain," explains the University's web team manager, Cathy Nelson-Smith.

"So we needed a robust and powerful search tool. We were particularly attracted to Funnelback because of their expertise in delivering faceted navigation, which provides users with several options for refining their query, saving time and easing the task of accessing relevant information."

In a successful pilot, Funnelback was recently incorporated into the new Course Finder tool developed by Nelson-Smith's team to help prospective students learn more about Macquarie University's courses, what differentiates them and how to plan what subjects to study as part of their degree.

"We felt the Course Finder application was a really innovative and useful tool, but one which wasn't fully optimised until we added Funnelback search to it," Nelson-Smith added.

Mr. Stuart Beil, Executive Director of Funnelback said the recent collaboration was just the tip of the iceberg.

"We're really excited to be partnering with Macquarie University and very much looking forward to working on a number of projects in coming years," he said.