Vivisimo
Vivísimo is a privately-held technology company in Pittsburgh specialising in the development of computer search engines. The focus of Vivísimo's research thus far has been the concept of clustering search results based on topic; for example, dividing the results of a search for "cell" into groups like "biology," "battery," and "prison." This process allows users to intuitively narrow their search results to a particular category or browse through related fields of information, and seeks to avoid the "overload" problem of sorting through too many results.
Vivísimo technology is available to enterprise in the form of several cohesive software products, including the Vivísimo Clustering Engine, Vivísimo Content Integrator, and Vivísimo Velocity. The technology is also freely available to the public in the form of Clusty: a free, clustering search engine at clusty.com.
Company History
Vivísimo was founded in 2000 by a trio of computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The name was taken from Spanish to mean "bright, lively, and intelligent."
In October 2005, Vivísimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov, the web of the US Government.
The company is funded from a variety of sources, including Innovation Works, the National Science Foundation, and private investors. Its products are used by a wide variety of websites, companies, and government agencies.[1]
Reviews
- What is Clusty? [2], by Antonio Caravantes [3]
- Connection with Vivísimo [4], by Chris Sherman [5]
- Lluís Codina [6], (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Baquia[7]