2001

• Wired News: "Searching for Google's Successor"
  By Angel Gonzalez, 14 August 2001
  Vivisimo, a spin-off company from Carnegie Mellon University, is a meta search engine that uses other search engines and classifies the results. Vivisimo categorizes summaries that are produced by other search engines and then groups the pages according to terms that the algorithm deems descriptive.

• TechTV: "New Search Engines that Rival Google"
  By Martin Sargent, 1 August 2001
  Vivisimo means "very lively" and "clever" in Spanish, and in general the search tool lives up to its name [...] Using Vivisimo is a treat. A search for Linux provided keenly categorized results in both the main categories and subcategories sections, and all the other test searches I undertook also provided impressive results [...] Give it a shot.

• The Register: "More Great Search Engines You Should Check Out"
  By Kieren McCarthy, 26 July 2001
  This is really good. Search results are listed conventional fashion but also split into topics and sub-topics on the left-hand side. We tried out a wide range of searches and were amazed each time at its accuracy to clump abstract areas of the subject together.

• Search Engine Watch: "Vivisimo "Editor Choice" Metacrawler by Search Engine Watch"
  By Danny Sullivan, 23 July 2001
  Top Picks - Both Ixquick and Vivisimo both stand out from this survey as "editor choice" selections. These meta search services give you access to a wide number of major search engines when using their default settings. In addition, paid listings do not crowd out listings from the major search engines. They are non-existent at Vivisimo and fairly limited at Ixquick.

• Pittsburgh Business Times: "Vivisimo is Bellissimo"
  By Ethan Lott, 20 July 2001
  Who are the only currently active players who played with Cal Ripken Jr. in his first All-Star Game? Few things are more frustrating than hearing only the front-end of a trivia question. The day after this year's baseball All-Star Game, the Cal question was floating around the newsroom. I missed the answer. I knew I could find it online. But I thought it might be a tough one. So, I decided to use this Cal query to further test a new search tool created here in Pittsburgh, as yet another spawn of Carnegie Mellon University researchers. The new site, http://vivisimo.com, isn't a search engine as such. It's basically a metasearch tool that searches sites like Google, Yahoo!, and AltaVista and compiles the results in a useful fashion. Vivisimo uses a clustering algorithm that detects patterns in the results and then groups them in folders of like topics. The folders are displayed in a left frame and can be navigated much like the folder system in Microsoft Explorer