TEQ Magazine: "Pittsburgh Playmakers"
By Tim Hayes, 27 December 2005
The result? Vivisimo, a revolutionary "clustering" search engine that is transforming the on-line experience.
Ecommerce Times: "Japanese Government May Start Rival Search Engine"
By Keith Regan, 20 December 2005
Several smaller startups, such as Clusty and Vivisimo have also launched a Japanese version of their search platforms in recent months.
Inc. Magazine: "Entrepreneur of the Year: Readers Favorites"
15 December 2005
Raul Valdes-Perez developed a breakthrough search-engine
algorithm. Today, more than 10% of all Internet searches are "clustered"
using technology from Vivisimo, his Pittsburgh-based firm.
iMedia Connection: "Personalizing Search"
By Isaac Scarborough, 6 December 2005
Vivisimo's Clusty — has built their businesses around what is called "clustering" technology.
U.S. News: "Digging Deeper"
By David Lagesse, 5 December 2005
To make it easier to understand results, www.clusty.com adds a panel to the left of the results that organizes them into categories.
Search Engine Journal: "Vivisimo Launches Clusty Japan Search Engine"
By Loren Baker, 3 December 2005
In an effort to showcase its clustering search technology for the Japanese market, Vivisimo has launched Clusty.jp.
Web Pro News: "Clusty Has No Lust for Personalization"
By David Utter, 29 November 2005
Providing personalized search has become a big focus for sites like Yahoo and Google, but the CEO of Clusty.com's parent company Vivisimo thinks search personalization is a dead end.
Inc.com: "Know Thy Prospects"
By Mathew Phan, 16 November 2005
A second generation of "clustering"
search engines may prove even more beneficial. Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of
Vivisimo, the software company behind Clusty.com, describes the company's
site as a pair of binoculars.
Econtent: "Name With the Face: Peter Pawlowski, Software Engineer and Lead Linguist, Vivisimo, Inc."
By David Meerman Scott, 1 November 2005
"Our product, Vivisimo Velocity, organizes results of a search task for our customers," says Peter Pawlowski.
Federal Computer Week: "Rescuing Missed Information"
By Aliya Sternstein, 17 October 2005
"The ongoing problem is that just about anything you type in [a search form] will lead to an overabundance of information," said Raul Valdes-Perez, co-founder of Vivisimo.
Econtent: "A Case of Clustered Clarity"
By Geoff Daily, 20 October 2005
Vivisimo offered the company a new way to facilitate effective searching through the use of its proprietary Clustering Engine, which organizes search results into a series of folders.
Federal Computer Week: "FirstGov Completes Its Search"
By Aliya Sternstein, 3 October 2005
Vivisimo and Microsoft will offer FirstGov users more organized and comprehensive results from media outlets, image libraries and government Web pages.
Search Engine Watch: "Vivisimo and MSN to Power FirstGov"
By Gary Price, 26 September 2005
Vivisimo has been awarded a federal government contract to provide search technology to the U.S. Government's FirstGov.gov portal.
PRNewswire: "DeepVertical Launches Five Vertical Search Sites"
25 September 2005
The sites are powered by Vivisimo Velocity which presents the results in a clustered format, allowing the user to drill down to sub-topics of interest within their search results.
Federal Computer Week: "FirstGov Portal to Soon Offer Better Search Organization"
By Aliya Sternstein, 23 September 2005
FirstGov.gov users will get search results clustered into groups of related hits through new technologies that the General Services Administration is implementing early next year. Microsoft MSN Search and Vivisimo'’s Clusty.com will power the official government portal.
Government Computer News: "FirstGov.gov to Expand Capabilities with New Contract"
By Rob Thormeyer, 23 September 2005
The search function will rely on software developer Vivisimo's Clusty.com search engine and incorporate results and features from Microsoft's MSN search engine.
WebPro News: "Making a Case for Metasearch"
By David Utter, 22 September 2005
Users would benefit from using sites like Clusty ... to find a broader assortment of results.
WebPro News: "Add Vivisimo's Clustering Technology to Your Site"
By Chris Richardson, 18 August 2005
It's this knowledge that seemingly inspired Vivisimo, developer of the Clusty.com clustering search engine, to introduce an affiliate program where potential clients would be able to integrate aspects of Vivisimo's technology onto their site.
New York Times: "In Silicon Valley, a Debate Over the Size of the Web"
By John Markoff, 15 August 2005
Other search engine specialists remained skeptical about the ability to estimate Web or index size as long as the search engines were being secretive about their methods. "I don't have any good way of checking," said Raul Valdes-Perez, a computer scientist who is chief executive of Vivisimo, which operates the Clusty search engine.
Intelligent Enterprise: "In Search of Intelligent Search"
By Michael P. Voelker, 8 August 2005
To aggregate search results from multiple sources, the University [of Pittsburgh] early this year deployed Vivisimo's Velocity search engine to perform a federated search of internal resources as well as the third-party publisher sites.
CIO Update: "Vortals Making a Comeback"
By Raul Valdes-Perez, 4 August 2005
Vertical search engines are back because its cheaper and easier than ever to cluster and correlate information, writes CIO Update guest columnist Raul
Valdes-Perez of Vivisimo.
Business Intelligence Network: "ETL Functions for Narrative Data Mart Population"
By William Lewis, 28 July 2005
This real-time "dimensionalization" done by Vivisimo is termed clustering. Clustering can result in a different taxonomy each time it's done, based on the search terms and input data.
Search Engine Watch: "Metasearch the Blogsphere With Clusty"
By Gary Price, 18 July 2005
Using Clusty to search the blogosphere offers an easy way to quickly see results from most of the well-known databases while also allowing you the benefit of dynamic clustering.
Pittsburgh Tribune Review: "Vivisimo Percolating as Next Big Thing"
By Michael Yeomans, 29 June 2005
Vivisimo Inc. has been tagged by the president of Carnegie Mellon University and by Pennsylvania's top technology investment fund as one of the prime local companies to make the next big jump.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Firm Donates Technology for City Web Site Navigators"
By Rich Lord, 29 June 2005
On its 5th birthday, Squirrel Hill-based Web searching company Vivisimo Inc. gave the city a birthday present. Vivisimo has donated the use of its Web-searching tool, dubbed Clusty, to the city of Pittsburgh Web site, at www.cityofpittsburgh.net.
Pittsburgh Business Times: "BIO2005 Generates Big Numbers, Expectations"
By John George and Jennifer Curry, 26 June 2005
[...] Don Taylor, senior director of life sciences solutions for Pittsburgh-based Vivisimo Inc., said he was able to exceed his goals of solidifying relationships and meeting with prospects, including several big pharmaceutical companies.
TIME: "50 Coolest Websites 2005: News and Information"
By Maryanne Murray Buechner, 22 June 2005
Google, Yahoo and MSN dominate search, but we're always on the lookout for an innovative approach. Clusty, the metasearch engine from Vivisimo, clusters results by sub-category to help you zero in on what you need-an approach AOL will take on the new aol.com, launching in July.
New York Times: "Enough Keyword Searches. Just Answer My Question."
By James Fallows, 12 June 2005
Two related sites, Clusty.com and its parent, vivisimo.com, categorize the hits from each search, producing a kind of table of contents of results.
eWeek: "Ask Jeeves Expands Related Searches, Seeks Answers"
By Matt Hicks, 26 May 2005
Clustering and query refinement have gained the attention of both search startups and the larger engines. Startup Vivisimo Inc. has put clustering into action in its Clusty search site and as part of the revamped America Online Inc. search.
InfoWorld: "Vivisimo Velocity Brings Structure to Enterprise Search"
By Mike Heck, 23 May 2005
Vivisimo Velocity 4.2 should be on your short list as a primary information-retrieval platform.
Network Computing: "Vivisimo Velocity 4.2: Finding Needles in Haystacks"
By Sean Doherty, 12 May 2005
Vivisimo Velocity customizes results from multiple sources—from search engines to specific Web sites—to provide a single source of indexed results for any search.
New York Times: "Your Internet Search Results, in the Round"
By John Markoff, 8 May 2005
Vivisimo has introduced a consumer-oriented search engine, www.clusty.com, which tries to deal with the problem of hidden information by displaying a list of folders to the left of the search results, adding an alternative category view in addition to a simple ranked listing.
TEQ Magazine: "Viva Vivisimo!"
By Jonathan Kersting, 1 April 2005
Over the past five years, Vivisimo, Inc., has been quietly building a solid business one customer at a time while refining its clustering and meta search software. [...] Valdes-Perez says 2005 is truly going to be the year of clustering. Vivisimo's "quiet" time might soon be coming to an end.
ZDNet: "More Heads Better than One?"
By Raul Valdes-Perez, 31 March 2005
Metasearch engines send a user's query to multiple search engines and blend the top results from each into one overall list. A final step can involve clustering the combined results, but both metasearch and regular search engines can be clustered, so the clustering issue is separate.
Government Computer News: "New Feature Spice Up Science.gov and Vivisimo's Clusty"
By Joab Jackson, 23 March 2005
Search software vendor Vivisimo Inc. has added to its aggregated search site, Clusty, a section exclusively devoted to government resources. [...] users can do a search that will span multiple federal and government-related Web resources, such as FirstGov, the Defense Department's DefenseLink and the government section of MSN.
PC Magazine: "Clusty's New Government Search"
14 March 2005
As of today, Vivisimo's Clusty search engine will add a "Gov" tab (gov.clusty.com) to its existing, customizable set, which includes Web, News, Images, Gossip, Shopping, Encyclopedia, and more.
E-Commerce Times: "Experts Predict Where Search Will Go in 2005"
By Jennifer LcClaire, 9 March 2005
Another common prediction, and one that falls in line with usability, is for the increased adoption of clustering technology. America Online is already offering clustering via its Vivisimo partnership. Weiner, for one, said he's hooked on clustering, and he expects to see major search engine players add clustering features in 2005 to make search more user-friendly.
Government Computer News: "Power User: More Google Power"
By John McCormick, 4 March 2005
Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), a relatively new company in my neighborhood, Pittsburgh, has built a new kind of enterprise metasearch tool already in use at NASA, NSA and other government agencies. [...] Users of Internet Explorer or FireFox can add clustering functionality to their Web browsers today by downloading the company's Clusty Toolbar at www.clusty.com. My M theory search using Clusty sorted results into String Theory (43), Music (25), Number Theory (22) and more than a dozen other categories, greatly facilitating my research.
Library Journal: "Visualize This"
By Judy Luther, Maureen Kelly & Donald Beagle, 1 March 2005
Vivisimo uses natural language rather than imbedded metadata to cluster search results on the fly. Icons are reminiscent of Windows, and results appear in traditional and familiar nested lists. Because the Vivisimo clusters are dynamic, they change as the underlying content changes.
CIO Update: "Empowering Employees Through Search"
By Raul Valdes-Perez, 10 February 2005
Search engine technology has come a long way, but many employees are still hampered by old technology that returns poor results, writes CIO Update guest columnist Raul Valdes-Perez of Vivisimo.
ComputerWorld: "Clusty Takes on the "Big Boys""
By Mark Hall, 31 January 2005
If you're bewildered by endless lists of unorganized links to your search requests, give Clusty a shot. It's the brainchild of some brainy Carnegie Mellon University denizens who founded Pittsburgh-based Vivisimo Inc.
Press Release Newswire: "Goebel Group Releases First Comprehensive Search Appliance Comparison Matrix"
24 January 2005
Goebel Group, Inc. a leading integrator of enterprise search technology products and services, today released the first comprehensive matrix detailing and comparing the features of the industry's search appliance products, available at www.goebelgroup.com/sam.htm. [...] The following products are included in this matrix: Google Mini, Google Search Appliance, Thunderstone Search Appliance, Vivisimo Velocity Dell bundle.
Pittsburgh Tribune Review: "Vivisimo Lands Licensing Deal with AOL"
By Michael Yeomans, 22 January 2005
America Online Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, has licensed the software of a Squirrel Hill company as part of its effort to revamp the search engine on its Internet home page and attract more nonsubscribers.
New York Times: "AOL Offers a More Refined Search Engine"
21 January 2005
America Online introduced a new Internet search engine yesterday, part of an effort to gain a larger share of the online advertising market. The service, called AOL Search, will sort results by geography and topic and offer a suggestion tool, the company, a Time Warner unit, said. AOL has licensed technology from Vivisimo, a closely held software company.
Search Engine Watch: "AOL Search: Playing in the Big Leagues Now"
By Chris Sherman & Gary Price, 20 January 2005
AOL is rolling out several enhancements to its core search functionality that position it as a clear contender in the battle for eyeballs between Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. [...] Search result pages also offer new features. Perhaps most noticeable is the addition of dynamic clustering using technology licensed from Vivisimo. Clusters are labeled "web matches" and appear on the upper left of search result pages.
Search Engine Journal: "Vivisimo Expands Past Steeler Country and into France"
17 January 2005
Vivisimo who has positioned themselves as the clustering search engine, today announced plans for the expansion of its Pittsburgh headquarters in a new location and for the establishment of a Paris office to help support the growing worldwide demand for the company's award-winning products.
MIT Technology Review: "What's Next for Google?"
By Charles H. Ferguson, 7 January 2005
For the sorting and clustering of search results, the leader is Vivisimo, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff in Pittsburgh, with its new Clusty website.
Business Week: "Building a Smarter Search Engine"
By Heather Green, 4 January 2005
Vivisimo's Clusty aims to sort through the confusing welter of Web results and cluster them by topic, speeding users on their way.
PC World: "The New Web Challengers"
By Scott Spanbauer & Steve Bass, 3 January 2005
[...]The new Clusty metasearch engine from Vivisimo blasts your request to other sites based on what it knows about the strengths of individual search engines.
