Vivisimo
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Internet |
| Founded | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2000) |
| Headquarters | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
Key people | Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO Jerome Pesenti, Chief Scientist Chris Palmer, CTO |
| Products | Vivísimo Velocity enterprise search suite |
| Website | vivisimo.com |
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 a cohesive search suite, Vivísimo Velocity, which includes the Vivísimo Clustering Engine and Vivísimo Content Integrator. 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 the Latin root viva for "life," with the Romance suffix -issimo indicating a superlative. Earlier marketing tied this to the company's older tagline, "bright, lively, and intelligent."
In October 2005, Vivísimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov, the official web portal 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]
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External links
- Vivísimo
- Clusty
- Bio MetaCluster (an application of Vivísimo Velocity for Life Sciences)
- FirstGov.gov Search