The year also brought strong enterprise search solutions, led by Vivísimo but with Google and others close behind, and a new twist on content management with RSS managers for the enterprise from Attensa, KnowNow, and NewsGator.

From a security perspective, you have security betwixt and between two situations, says Mark Dye, vice president of business development for Vivísimo. You have to lock down that information, but on the other hand you have to make the information readily available so that it can be searched by the right people with the right permissions very quickly.

For those who can't or don't wish to invest the time and effort necessary to build taxonomies, clustering offers an alternative.

As search capabilities move out of applications and across the organization, the potential for security breaches increases greatly. Yet, despite the buzz around search these days, security is one aspect that few have paid much attention to.

Serials Solutions is attempting to "supercharge" federated searching by incorporating Vivísimo Results Clustering capabilities into its Central Search product at no charge to customers.

People are permitted to see some documents, not to see others. In [enabling search on company intranets and databases], the problem is you are allowed access to more information. It has to take into account more security restrictions. You are opening a Pandora's box.

Vivísimo Velocity 5 delivers what other search products generally lack: a pleasant experience, characteristic of consumer search, that’s supported by enterprise security and customization options.

FirstGov has been working on updating its search technology for quite a while. In 2005, Vivísimo, which makes the Clusty metasearch engine, and Microsoft's MSN Search won contracts to provide search services to FirstGov.

Dr. Valdes-Perez said clustering allows a computer user to go quickly to the Web pages that are most relevant, instead of having to rely on a search engine's software to put the pages he wants at the top of the heap.

Enterprise search vendors either define their market as a place where Google isn't or insist that they can compete in terms of price, interface, and technology. "We disagree 100% that search is a commodity," says Vivisimo's CEO, Raul Valdes-Perez.

Arnold called out another relative newcomer, Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Vivísimo, as another revolutionary company, with its ability to categorize content and eliminate redundant results.

In fact, many search vendors offer federation. Vivísimo's implementation of search for FirstGov.gov relies not just on its own crawl of .gov sites, but also federates searches across the MSN Web search engine.

Vivísimo CEO touts "clustering" of search results for enterprises, consumers.

This past January, the site reverted to a Web search model. FirstGov now uses Vivísimo Inc.'s Clusty Web search technology with Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Web index.

That is the specialty of Vivísimo Inc., whose president, Raul Valdes-Perez, will outline new ways of assembling data for easier viewing.

"It's sort of a Google-plus" because you do not have to rely on scrolling through pages and pages of search results to find what you want, Freed said.

At the University of Pittsburgh's Health Sciences Library, information seekers take advantage of federated search techniques, scanning multiple online resources like eBooks, journals, and medical research sources, all with a single query. But they don't have to get overwhelmed by bloated search results—their search system, Velocity, from Vivísimo (www.vivisimo.com), "clusters" the results by subject for much-appreciated, easy navigation.

FirstGov, aided by private-sector partners Vivísimo and Microsoft, now connects Web searchers to more than 40 million government-related documents from federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments.

GSA officially launched FirstGov.gov's new search engine powered by Vivísimo Inc.'s clustering technology and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search tool today—nearly three months ahead of schedule.

Back in September we posted that Vivísimo (the company and technology that powers Clusty) along with MSN Search had won the government contract to power the new FirstGov search engine.

While the big-name vendors wrangled, search breakthroughs from upstarts appeared this year. Vivísimo introduced Velocity, an elegant, real-time way to federate and cluster search results from both enterprise and public search engines.

...search tools from Vivísimo Inc. that will correct misspellings, broaden the number of returns to customer search queries and suggest more related merchandise.

Others are not so sure metadata is entirely necessary for good data searches. Except in special cases that involve something like images or videos, metadata tagging is "nice-to-have," but not essential, said Jerome Pesenti, chief scientist for Vivísimo Inc.

For the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, a new Web portal (http://ben.clusty.com) is offering a comprehensive, searchable resource of the iconic statesman's writings and quotations, along with a targeted search engine and tools for teachers.

In honor of Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday next week, a search engine company has launched a free, searchable Web portal that aggregates Franklin’s writing, proverbs and other resources.

News from Clusty this morning that they have launched a new "specialty search database" to mark the 300th Birthday (his tecentenary) on January 17th of one American history's most important, most interesting, and most dynamic figures, Benjamin Franklin.

To help celebrate the three-century mark, an Internet "portal" or search engine will debut Monday devoted to Franklin's writings. The Web site can be accessed at www.ben.clusty.com.

Vivísimo introduced Velocity, an elegant, real-time way to federate and cluster search results from both enterprise and public search engines.