Clusty.com Launches Free Site Search for Nonprofits, Schools and Universities; Free Service Delivers Unique Branded Search Tab at Clusty.com and Improved Search Experience for Users.PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh (pĭts`bərg), city (1990 pop. 369,879), seat of Allegheny co., SW Pa., at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, which there form the Ohio River; inc. 1816. -- Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), the creator of innovative software to access and cluster the world's information for better search and discovery, today announced that it has launched a free search service for nonprofit organizations Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. and educational institutions. Clusty's Site Search Service provides these organizations with a free search box and clustered search results in a uniquely branded and dedicated search tab at Clusty.com. Vivisimo developed Clusty's Site Search Service to help resource-strapped webmasters and organizations provide a world-class search experience for their visitors, while preserving their site's identity. With Clusty's Site Search Service, a visitor that searches a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. or educational institution Web site is directed to a dedicated search tab at Clusty.com. The tab, which highlights the organization's name in red to help maintain brand identity, produces search results clustered in trademark Vivisimo fashion. Visitors can then navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. results by theme and easily locate information or discover topics that otherwise would be buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. in a list of search results. The result is a better search experience for the user and a more effective, informational Web site for the organization. "We have to balance our desire to provide a world class search experience with the resources we have to purchase and to implement cutting-edge technology," said Norton Gusky, coordinator of educational technology for the Fox Chapel Area School District Fox Chapel Area School District is a public school district located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It serves the mostly wealthy boroughs of Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox Chapel, and Sharpsburg, along with Indiana and O'Hara Townships. . "With Clusty's Site Search Service, we can deliver an enhanced search experience for students, staff and site visitors while maintaining our organization's identity and without paying or installing additional software," "Having emerged from academia and worked with many nonprofits, we know the resource constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 14(1):1-39 (Aug 1980)]. that face nonprofit and educational organizations," said Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Vivisimo. "Webmasters can now provide their users with an innovative site-search experience that includes dynamic clustering of search results for easier navigation and discovery, while maintaining the branding of their site with a tab at Clusty.com." To try Clusty's Site Search, please visit some of the organizations that have implemented the service, which include the Fox Chapel Area School District (http://www.fcasd.edu), Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department (http://www.cs.cmu.edu), the Free Tibet Campaign The Free Tibet Campaign is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, founded in 1987 and based in London, England that campaigns for the rights of the Tibetan people to determine their own government. (http://www.freetibet.org), the Pittsburgh History Museum (http://www.pghhistory.org), and Rational Revolution (http://www.rationalrevolution.net). Clusty Site Search Service is available now for organizations with domains ending in .org, .edu and .net as well as for school districts with domains that contain "k12" and end in .us. Webmasters can visit http://Clusty.com/sitesearch for more information and directions on how to use the free service. About Vivisimo, Inc. Vivisimo, Inc. creates innovative software to access and cluster the world's information, for better search and discovery. Fortune 500 businesses, government agencies, academia and millions of searchers use Vivisimo's clustering technology to better organize and navigate massive amounts of information. Vivisimo is the creator of the popular Clusty.com consumer search engine and serves enterprise customers through its suite of clustering, search and federated search Federated search is the simultaneous search of multiple online databases and is an emerging feature of automated, Web-based library and information retrieval systems. It is also often referred to as a portal, as opposed to simply a Web-based search engine. products. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world. Please visit vivisimo.com to learn more. |
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