Search Engine Watch: "Meta Search Engines are Back"
By Greg Jarboe, 4 December 2003
It's been a busy year for the major meta search engines, with a number of notable developments [...] Vivisimo announced Release 4.0 of its award-winning clustering engine.
New Scientist: "Microsoft News Site to Customize Content"
By Celeste Biever, 18 November 2003
Vivisimo is working on a different approach to the presentation of news search results. Its test news site, which has not yet been revealed to the public, spontaneously clusters links to news articles according to subject.
ClickZ: "Future Search"
By Pamela Parker, 14 November 2003
Vivisimo which this week made a deal with Infospace, provides "clustering" technology that groups similar search results together. [...] What's especially interesting for search marketers is Vivisimo claims users click on 30 to 100 percent more paid listings when presented with search results organized in its hierarchical folders.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Squirrel Hill Start-Up Lands Two Big Clients"
By Corilyn Shropshire, 11 November 2003
While the rest of us are sifting through page after page of our "Google" search, Squirrel Hill Internet search clustering developer Vivisimo Inc. has quietly been adding big-name customers for its software that makes searching the Web more efficient.
The Guardian: "Six of the Best Alternatives to Google"
By Jack Schofield, 25 September 2003
Vivisimo listed on the top of the list of Google alternatives.
PC Magazine: "Site of the Week"
By Sean Carroll, 2 September 2003
Search engines work. They do. The problem is they work too well. The needle you're looking for may be hidden in a haystack-size pile of other needles. That's where metasearch engine Vivisimo and its clustering technology comes in.
Search Engine Watch: "DogPile Sports a Fetching New Look"
By Chris Sherman, 2 September 2003
I've been a longtime fan of Vivisimo, and the addition of its clustering technology to Dogpile results is an exceptionally useful new feature [...] In testing the new interface, "74% said clustering provided a better experience," said Leslie Grandy, vice president, product management for InfoSpace.
BBC World: "DogPile Sports a Fetching New Look"
By Sevan Bastajian, 7 August 2003
Instead of having to trawl through a huge list of results, which you'll probably lose interest in very soon, Vivisimo clusters the results together and describes them in easy to understand and helpful topic groupings.
Search Engine Watch: "Power Searching with Vivisimo"
By Chris Sherman, 3 August 2003
Vivisimo is a capable metasearch engine, serving results from multiple
engines simultaneously. Dig a bit deeper and you'll find some
powerful, unique features not found elsewhere on the web.
Information Today: "The Eighth Search Engine Meeting"
By Donald T. Hawkins, 1 June 2003
After last year's detour to San Francisco, the Search Engine Meeting returned to Boston [...]
Raul Valdes-Perez, president of Vivisimo, suggested that many people solve information overload by "information overlook"simply ignoring much of the data they retrieve. Using a statistic from Evans' keynote address, Valdes-Perez asked, "How many documents can you open in the 12 minutes before search rage occurs?"
National Science Foundation: "Organizing Documents from Anywhere in Any Language"
By Josh Chamot, 20 March 2003
Getting answers to broad, exploratory questions can leave searchers
slogging through a morass of information... Vivisimo filters and automatically
categorizes responses from search requests. The results resemble a
human-generated index that can help guide searchers in the right
direction...thereby helping to identify trends or fine-tune searches
without requiring users to know the correct terminology.
Search Engine Watch: "Best Metasearch"
By Danny Sullivan, 28 January 2003
Vivisimo named the winner of the Best metasearch category for the 2nd year in a row.
vivisimo.com not only pulls back matching responses from major search engines
but it also automatically organizes the pages on-the-fly into categories in
an "easy-to-view format."
Heise Online: "Search Engine with Order"
By Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti, 13 January 2003
Vivisimo displays the topic areas on the left side. This provides the user with a rapid overview of the most significant aspects of the content search... A search for Iraq is categorized into nice clean topics like "Soldiers", "Iraq War" and "United Nations".
