Narrowing the search
Date: 2004-11-22 Source: News.com
The best personalization is done by individuals themselves. Software or even other people can only guess--usually poorly--a person's interest. The next advances in search technology will acknowledge this limitation and make it easy for people to act on their interests of the moment--which only they can recognize. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
New company starts up a challenge to Google
Date: 2004-09-30 Source: News.com
Google executives have long conceded that one of their great fears is to be overtaken by a more advanced Internet search technology. Vivisimo, a company founded by three former Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists, is hoping to prove that Google's worries are well founded. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Reducing Information Overkill
Date: 2004-09-30 Source: SearchDay
Vivisimo 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. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
A cure for info overload
Date: 2004-05-21 Source: pittsburghlive.com
"Google is very good at taking simple requests and finding (Web) pages that relate to those words," he said. "What it isn't good at is dealing with multiple interpretations or meanings for the same words. Vivisimo is clustering pages into relevant categories, which is something most of the major search engines aren't doing." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Vivisimo to organize eBay search results
Date: 2004-02-12 Source: USAToday.com
Vivisimo Inc., developer of a well-regarded Internet search technology that clusters results into categories in seconds, has found another messy corner of the Web to organize: the product listings on eBay. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Beyond Google: Narrow the Search
Date: 2004-01-05 Source: Wired
Software now emerging analyzes search results and automatically sorts them into categories that, at a glance, present far more information than the typical textual list. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Monetizing Graphical Search
Date: 2003-12-15 Source: InternetNews.com
You could think of Vivisimo as graphical search for the left brain, and Grokker as the right brain version. Or you could look at it as a PC versus Mac split. In any case, as the companies behind both enhance their next-generation meta-search technologies, they have one thing in common -- they're keeping paid search in mind. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Vivisimo Clustering Gains Market Momentum
Date: 2003-11-13 Source: Business Wire
Vivisimo, Inc., a leading provider of clustering and meta-search software, today announced that a growing number of search sites, enterprises and government institutions have deployed Vivisimo Clustering to organize their search results, leading to almost tripling of revenues, substantial business progress, and the first year of profitability for Vivisimo. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
InfoSpace Looks for Revenue Boost from Search Clustering
Date: 2003-11-10 Source: InternetNews.com
Vivisimo's traffic analysis of its own and customers' sites showed that users click on 30 to 100 percent more paid listings when presented with search results organized into hierarchical folders using its clustering technology. This conclusion is the result of "before and after" trials at Web search sites that include paid listings. Page views per search session increased by 100 to 150 percent, boosting pay-per-click revenue. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Enhancements and Upgrades at Vivisimo
Date: 2003-08-22 Source: ResourceShelf
Word today from the Pittsburgh based "clustering" software company about a few tweaks and enhancements to the very useful "metasearch like" Vivisimo. Saman Haqqi from Vivisimo has shared with ResourceShelf a list of what's new. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Vivísimo Awarded NSF SBIR Grants to Develop New Capabilities for Homeland Security
Date: 2003-06-12 Source: vivisimo.com
Vivísimo, Inc., a global provider of advanced document clustering and content integration software, announced it has recently been awarded two National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to develop additional capabilities for homeland security and intelligence gathering. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Vivisimo Launches German Site
Date: 2003-01-10 Source: Business Wire
The German site is a demonstration of the multi-lingual capability of Vivisimo's enterprise software. Visitors can use the site to search the entire web or they can choose several top German language sources. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
