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Clusty is a "metasearch" engine by Vivísimo that uses an algorithm to cluster (ergo the name) content based on textual similarity. Enter a search term in Clusty's sparse front page and you'll get results from a variety of sources, depending on which "tab" you're on.
Clusty's mobile service returns search results for mobile devices much like it does for computers, but once users click on a search result they can see the difference.
The clusters have it....Search engines, such as Clusty (www.clusty.com) provide clustered results output that can be refined to yield highly accurate results.
Every time we perform a search, Clusty pulls together the data from other engines like Ask, MSN and Wisenut. It then organizes the search results in a way that helps us navigate away from ambiguity towards specific cluster of results.
Two years after its debut, the innovative Web site and the Squirrel Hill company that created it are carving out a niche in the competitive world of finding cyber-info fast.
The functionality is nice and straightforward, and clouds can be created literally within seconds.
If it's September it must be Shakespeare. Clusty has released Shakespeare Searched which is designed to provide quick access to the works of the Bard.
Some search engines, like Clusty (www.clusty.com), say they do not store personal search details from their users.
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.
There are also others such as Clusty.com, a service that displays results in thematic bundles.
Vivísimo CEO touts "clustering" of search results for enterprises, consumers.
Vivísimo, Inc. (http://www.vivisimo.com) has launched Clusty Site Search Service, a free search service for nonprofit organizations and educational institutions.
The recently developed Clusty.com takes a "meta-search" approach to sleuthing, sending your terms to several engines.
One area of data security that many people overlook is the security of searching on the Web. In this edition of IT Locksmith, John McCormick takes a look at Clusty.com, a search engine that keeps your research private.
Clusty.com, a search site developed by several Carnegie Mellon computer scientists, is another. Clusty proudly states that it "never censors search results" or excludes material "that would be objectionable to governments or would be unlawful in unelected, nondemocratic regimes."
The Web site http://www.clusty.com may be the next Google if early appeal is any indication.
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.
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.
Several smaller startups, such as Clusty and Vivísimo have also launched a Japanese version of their search platforms in recent months.
Clusty is a metasearch engine, meaning it combines results from a variety of different sources.
Vivísimo's Clusty -- has built their businesses around what is called "clustering" technology.
To make it easier to understand results, www.clusty.com adds a panel to the left of the results that organizes them into categories.
In an effort to showcase its clustering search technology for the Japanese market, Vivísimo has launched Clusty.jp.
Providing personalized search has become a big focus for sites like Yahoo and Google, but the CEO of Clusty.com's parent company Vivísimo thinks search personalization is a dead end.
A second generation of "clustering" search engines may prove even more beneficial. Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivísimo, the software company behind Clusty.com, describes the company's site as a pair of binoculars.
[...] virtually every government agency (and some that are closely tied to government) has a Web site. Some are merely informational; others deliver valuable services. Search engines such as Clusty [...] have special sections devoted to finding information from online government resources.
Vivísimo and Microsoft will offer FirstGov users more organized and comprehensive results from media outlets, image libraries and government Web pages.
Vivísimo has been awarded a federal government contract to provide search technology to the U.S. Government's FirstGov.gov portal.
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 Vivísimo'’s Clusty.com will power the official government portal.
The search function will rely on software developer Vivísimo's Clusty.com search engine and incorporate results and features from Microsoft's MSN search engine.
Users would benefit from using sites like Clusty ... to find a broader assortment of results.
It's this knowledge that seemingly inspired Vivísimo, developer of the Clusty.com clustering search engine, to introduce an affiliate program where potential clients would be able to integrate aspects of Vivísimo's technology onto their site.
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.
Google, Yahoo and MSN dominate search, but we're always on the lookout for an innovative approach. Clusty, the metasearch engine from Vivísimo, 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.
Clusty's worth adding to your bag of Web-surfing tricks because of its unique "clustering" of results. Search for your surname plus "family history".
Clustering and query refinement have gained the attention of both search startups and the larger engines. Startup Vivísimo Inc. has put clustering into action in its Clusty search site and as part of the revamped America Online Inc. search.
Clusty.com, our favorite search engine, has new tabs for government, jobs and other stuff. Click on "customize" and put a checkmark next to the tabs you want to add for quick searches.
I just noticed that Clusty, the meta search engine that provides dynamic clustering of results, is now offering cached copies of every url found when using the Clusty Web+ database.
Vivísimo 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.
The new and impressive job listings metasearch database, Indeed.com and Clusty, the metasearch engine offering dynamic clustering of results from Vivísimo that debuted last September, have gotten together to offer jobs.clusty.com.
It seems like there's always room for one more search engine. The new kid on the block these days is Clusty from Vivísimo. Clusty sets itself apart by using a clustering technology to generate manageable search results.
Search engine newcomer Clusty (www.clusty.com), operated by Vivísimo, offers Web site previews when you click on a magnifying glass image under each returned link. Clusty believes that it can dramatically improve search by doing the work of organizing, or clustering, search results for you.
Clusty's Clustering: Clustering was mentioned more than any other feature (10 times), with an additional six mentions being made specifically about the clustering feature at Clusty.com.
"Clusty" is short for clustering, as in, this metasearch engine takes your results and organizes them into "clusters." Type in "Jefferson" and the clusters will be as diverse as Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Airplane and NBA star Richard Jefferson.
Search software vendor Vivísimo 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.
As of today, Vivísimo'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.
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 Vivísimo 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.
In order to get the best results from an Internet search, people should use several different engines. Clusty returns typical search results along with "clusters" that categorize the topic under different subjects.
Vivísimo (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.
[...] Clusty (www.clusty.com) is still in beta-testing mode, but combines Google-like search functions with clustering options. A search for "Guardian Online", for example, produced clusters including newspapers, politics, journalism, entertainment, books and angels. You can build categories based on either topic, source or URL, and the news and image searches seem fairly accurate, even if they sometimes return fewer results than you might need.
[...]One of Clem's current favorites is Clusty (http://clusty.com). That engine, currently in test form, returns typical search results along with "clusters" that categorize the topic under different subjects.
Here are two of his favorites: Clusty.com. Clusters search results by topic. I found it a very fast way to find recent news on a company or research area. You can also cluster searches by sources and URLs.
[...] Clusty Toolbar 1.0.2 helps you find information quickly and easily. It's possible to search and cluster results from multiple search engines, as well as obtain encyclopedia information (from Wikipedia), dictionary definitions, and even shopping and gossip.
[...] if you're looking to organize and refine the results [...] Clusty is the most user friendly. Clusty can uncover unexpected results and relationships between items...
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 Vivísimo Inc.
For the sorting and clustering of search results, the leader is Vivísimo, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff in Pittsburgh, with its new Clusty website.
Vivísimo's Clusty aims to sort through the confusing welter of Web results and cluster them by topic, speeding users on their way.
[...]The new Clusty metasearch engine from Vivísimo blasts your request to other sites based on what it knows about the strengths of individual search engines.
- Motivation and Value of Free Resources: Wikipedia and PlanetMath Show the Way | Free Software Magazine
[...] The Clusty search engine from Vivísimo, Inc. uses Wikipedia articles directly in their system. Clusty searches various data on the web and creates "clusters" of links to help organize query results.
Our favorite search service for most things continues to be Clusty (www.clusty.com) the new incarnation of Vivísimo. (This is where we found a miniature plum tree for sale from South Africa.)
[...] 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.
Vivísimo, a provider of intelligent clustering, search, and meta-search software for organizing search results, has announced a clustering toolbar for Mozilla Firefox. The download is available immediately and offers Firefox users new features including ClustyClips and Mini-Mode.
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 released the Clusty Toolbar for Firefox, which lets Firefox users easily perform searches using Vivísimo's Clusty search engine. In addition, the extension's ClustyClips feature provides access to pop-up dictionary definitions or encyclopedia articles relating to any term on a page. There's also a Mini-Mode option, which allows users to collapse the toolbar into the standard Firefox Search bar, saving screen space.
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.
Then there's Clusty - one of the absolute coolest search sites ever. Clusty is fast, full featured and almost out-googles Google.
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.