[...]the EC lOO list provides a look at the stand-out companies that demonstrate the winning strategies and solutions that define the digital content industry. [...] Vivísimo, a privately held company founded by former Carnegie Mellon computer scientists, licenses its metasearch technology and document clustering (fully automated categorization) software for enterprise solutions-it can be integrated with most sites, applications, document databases, and search engines.

Early Web search engines succeeded spectacularly at turning up interesting results. With the growth of online content and the improvement in the ranking of search results, the situation is now flipped: Any query turns up an overabundance of results, both relevant and irrelevant.

Most search engines show you your results as a fairly straightforward list. Vivísimo, on the other hand, clusters your results into categories, which is a terrific system for helping you find exactly what you want—not just something close to it.

[...] Clusty.com: Created at Carnegie Mellon. A metasearch site that combines its own results with those of others such as Lycos. Clusters results into logical categories on the left side of the screen. Helps narrow broad searches very quickly.

Clusty.com Strengths: Once the search engine delivers a pile of Web pages, its artificial intelligence technology rearranges the data into clusters of information (hence, "Clusty"). It's sort of like classifying species of butterflies based on an indigenous region or color and is a boon for those who get overwhelmed by information overload.

Vivísimo has created a clustering toolbar for Firefox. [...] The toolbar includes features like ClustyClip that can highlight words anywhere on a page and open a window with an encyclopedia or dictionary definition.

Vivísimo, Inc., a company known for its clustering technology and metasearch software, has introduced a new enterprise product called Velocity, which bundles the Vivísimo Clustering Engine, Vivísimo Content Integrator, and Vivísimo Search Engine in a single, integrated, solution. The company says that Velocity is "the first rapid-deployment, highly customizable enterprise software that combines dynamic clustering, search, and metasearch into one solution."

Vivísimo Velocity is a Linux server application, front-ended by a Web administration tool, that combines dynamic document clustering, crawls as many as one million enterprise documents, and metasearches an unlimited number of other search engines or documents. I was impressed with how well Velocity federated search results from internal search projects and external sources.

[...] Vivísimo organizes search results on the fly into folders containing related information. Users can click on folders that seem most relevant and drill down into them, dismissing those that are too far off. In a sense, the searcher is creating an individualized hierarchy while being prompted "Key trends and themes emerge from the content, and they're hierarchical," Taylor said. "With our technology you can tease out ideas. It uncovers surprising relationships users may not have known existed."

Search startup Vivísimo on Tuesday will unveil its latest foray into the enterprise search market, which combines clustering with meta-search and custom crawling. [...]"The reason we decided to design our own crawler is that we were seeing a lot of problems today," Valdes-Perez said. "One problem we were finding is that customers have to repurpose or recustomize their content to placate their search-engine product."

Vivísimo is set to announce this week an enterprise search engine that helps find patterns and topics within a document to return categorized results on the fly for each query.;

To get an idea of how hot Web search is, go talk to Raul Valdes-Perez, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who is leading a search technology start-up called Vivísimo Inc. He'll tell you that more than 50 venture capitalists have come knocking on his door since January, all seeking a chance to invest in Vivísimo, which recently launched a Web search service [...] Clusty.

[...] Vivísimo introduced Clusty, a search engine that uses artificial intelligence techniques to categorize search results.

[...] The new technology, called Clusty, was developed by Vivísimo, which has been working on Clusty's underlying technology for four years. Unlike Google, which returns a simple ranked set of results, Clusty provides search results in clustered categories, making it easier for users to spot what they need.

[...] Vivísimo unveiled a new home for its clustered search at Clusty.com, which, along with displaying a list of Web results, also dynamically groups them into categories along the left side.

[...] Vivísimo, which is privately held and is profitable, according to its executives, has been selling its clustering technology to corporations for research by their employees. Now Vivísimo is making an effort to compete more broadly by attracting consumers to its Web site, clusty.com.

[...] The little-known Pittsburgh company is taking aim at Google and other industry leaders like Yahoo Inc. with a new search engine called Clusty.com, scheduled to debut Thursday after four years of fine tuning.

The latest challenger is Vivísimo, which this week launched a new Web search engine, Clusty.com. The name comes from its primary differentiating feature, the ability to take hundreds of search results and dynamically sort them into clusters of related documents.

[...] The 22-person Carnegie Mellon University spinoff believes it can compete with such Internet Goliaths as Google and Yahoo! by offering a search device that organizes results into categories or "clusters," thus making it easier to pinpoint exactly what a user is seeking.

[...] Clusty.com gives Vivísimo's search engine an identity of its own with new features that will provide its users with expanded capability to customize clustered Web searches by topics and by information sources.

Vivísimo has launched Clusty, a meta search engine with an impressive array of tools that helps you quickly find relevant results from a variety of information sources.

[...] Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of rival search firm Vivísimo, said Google's IPO price cut won't hurt his efforts to ramp up his business. "We don't have any external investors, so nobody keeps an eye on such short-term fluctuations," Valdes-Perez said. Overall, he added, "the Google IPO has been a great thing for the search industry, increasing the interest level of investors and the general public."

[...] "I would say that search technology on the Web is pretty mature," said Raul Valdez-Perez, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who is the founder and chief executive of Vivísimo Inc., a search engine competitor to Google.

Vivísimo, a provider of clustering and metasearch software for organizing search results, and LookSmart, a search company, have announced a clustering search feed, which is designed to dramatically improve click-through rates and increase revenue generation capabilities for Web sites while simultaneously improving the experience of search users.

[...] For some, the report offered a chance to shine a little light on their own abilities. Search company Vivísimo [...] organized it into groups or clusters according to topics. Clusters are then labeled, for example, "Saudi" or "Taliban." [...] More than 20,000 searches took place in the first three days.

[...] Another theme among small search engines is so-called clustering technology. [...] Vivísimo, a Pittsburgh company, specializes in the technology. Saman Haqqi, the firm's director of marketing, said that clustering helps users to see results quickly that would otherwise require scrolling through 10 or 20 pages to find.

[...] Vivísimo re-groups, re-organizes and ranks results based on its clustering technology that allow on the fly clustering results from other engines such as MSN, Lycos, Looksmart, Wisenut, Open Directory and Overture. This is an interesting way to rank information allowing users to discover themes and concepts in the pages they are looking for.

[...] My recent favorite is Vivísimo, founded by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, which clusters search results into useful categories rather than putting them in one big list.

The fervor over Google going public is rubbing off on a Pittsburgh startup that also specializes in search technology. [...] the benefits are being derived in three ways: an upturn in the number of people using its Web site, which generates advertising revenue; a boost in interest by businesses in using search technology for their databases, which Vivísimo sells; and an increase in inquiries from investors, funding from whom will help Vivísimo grow faster.

[...] Users also appreciate having tools available to help them narrow their results. Based in part on this feedback, InfoSpace worked with Vivísimo last year to deploy a 'Refine Your Results' feature on our three owned and operated search properties — Dogpile, WebCrawler and Metacrawler.

[...] By word of mouth, Vivísimo has become popular within a community of knowledgeable Web surfers. And it has been featured in articles in newspapers and online newsletters the world over. For the past three years it has been recognized as one of the best search tools on the Web by SearchEngineWatch.com, an online search engine news site published by New York-based JupiterMedia.

[...] In addition to displaying results, along the left of the page Vivísimo clusters sites into categories it detects through snippet text, URL, title, etc. This clustering mechanism could be especially useful to beginning searchers who use broad terms such as "car." For "Car" Vivísimo offers clusters like "Quotes, Car Prices," "Classic," "Motor," and more, which presents a potentially overwhelming number of sites into a manageable array of categories. This type of sorting could give beginning searchers a means of viewing a broader selection of results at one time and more immediate access to the information they seek.

[...] The average search query contains 2.5 words, leaving plenty of room for interpretation. As a result, searches typically turn up hundreds of links, many of them irrelevant. A handful of startups, from Vivísimo to iXmatch Inc., are using so-called clustering technology that organizes several hundred search results into subject-specific folders. A search on "Jimmy Carter," for instance, might return folders such as "Nobel Prize" and "Inaugural Address."

[...] ClusterMed organizes the long list of results returned by PubMed into hierarchical folders with meaningful categories, allowing researchers to hone in on the most relevant results quickly. [...] Vivísimo just could be the "little engine that could."

As speculation of a Google public offering hits a fever pitch, would-be rivals are combing over the company's business and technology for signs of weakness that could cut short its reign as the king of Web search. Vivísimo offers a search engine on its Web site that organizes queries into logical categories.

[..] Just as the search giant stole the thunder and traffic from big Web portals, competitors are set on becoming the next Google. [...] Vivísimo organize results by subject, so a search for "explorer" separates pages about Ferdinand Magellan from those about Ford's SUV.

Vivísimo Inc., developer of a well-regarded Internet search technology that clusters results into categories in seconds, has found another messy corner of the Web to organize: the product listings on eBay. For example, a query for "digital camera" on eBay yields a wide range of items [...] The same search on Vivísimo clusters cameras by brand or functions.

[...] For instance, a search for documents with the term "enterprise architecture" on FirstGov itself returns over 1,000 hits. A FirstGov query filtered through Vivísimo's site results in 33 top-level folders, divided into keyword-like categories such as "Federal Enterprise Architecture" and by individual agencies, such as the Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development departments...

Vivísimo clustering featured at the "Best metasearch Engine" category winner Dogpile and runner-up Vivísimo's web sites.

Clustering Engine 4.0 makes it possible for companies to deploy categorization capabilities that previously have been limited to big search engines or required lots of upfront precategorization work [...] its ability to create on-the-fly categories is so impressive that we gave it an eWeek Labs Analyst's Choice award.

As wonderful as Internet search engines are, they have a pretty big flaw. They often deliver too much information, and a lot of it isn't quite what we're looking for. Who really bothers to read the dozens of pages of results that Google generates?