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Funnelback

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Funnelback is an enterprise search platform, and its crawler indexes content from an organization's websites and data repositories. This powers the organization's internal search function. Operated by Squiz - FunnelBack.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is Funnelback?

Funnelback is a web crawler operated by Squiz - FunnelBack. Funnelback is an enterprise search platform, and its crawler indexes content from an organization's websites and data repositories. This powers the organization's internal search function. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Funnelback

Operator

Squiz - FunnelBack

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Funnelback crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Squiz - FunnelBack as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Funnelback

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Funnelback in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Funnelback from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Funnelback
Disallow: /

# Allow Funnelback full access
User-agent: Funnelback
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Funnelback. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Squiz - FunnelBack's documentation.