12 February 2002

Vivisimo Garners Awards for Document Clustering and metasearch

Pittsburgh, PA— Vivisimo, Inc., the leader in advanced document clustering for information management and retrieval, was recognized by Search Engine Watch for its public demonstration search site featuring its breakthrough technology.

Search Engine Watch named the search site at vivisimo.com the best metasearch Engine of 2001, and gave Vivisimo Document Clustering an Honorable Mention for Best Search Feature.

"A single source will never possess all the world's information, so expect the importance of metasearch on the web or within companies to increase over time,'' said Raul Valdes-Perez, President of Vivisimo. ''Of course, information glut inevitably follows, because, until now, these materials have been presented as a long tedious list. No longer. Our real-time document clustering technology makes sense of the material by dynamically sorting it into meaningful categories.''

The annual Search Engine Watch Awards recognize outstanding achievements in web searching. SearchEngineWatch.com is widely acknowledged as the leading source for information on search engines and has thrice been named a Top 100 Web Site by PC Magazine. Its editor Danny Sullivan speaks at conferences worldwide and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall St. Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The New Yorker and Newsweek.

Vivisimo has implemented its technology for a number of major corporations and shown how it fits with search engines made by Verity (NASDAQ:VRTY), Inktomi (NASDAQ:INKT), Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), OpenText (NASDAQ:OTEX), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google, Lotus, Fast, AltaVista, and others. The Demos at its website vivisimo.com show how clustering works with search engines that include FirstGov, Stanford, Yahoo, PubMed, IEEE, Scientific American, IBM, NASA, New York Times, eBay, and dozens of others.

About Vivisimo

Vivisimo does search right by combining the simplicity and innovation of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software. The company works with customers to understand their goals and quickly deploy solutions that maximize the business value of information—with an interface users love. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world. Please visit vivisimo.com to learn more about us and visit our Search Done Right blog to learn more about enterprise search.

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