Vivisimo Ranked Second Among Top 10 Search Engines; About.com Surveys 181 Users to Choose Favorite Search Engine.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2004 Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), the leading provider of clustering and meta-search software for organizing search results, was selected as the second most popular search engine on the Web according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a survey by About.com, a PRIMEDIA subsidiary. About.com, a human-powered database portal ranked among the top 15 web sites by Nielsen NetRatings announced the results of a focus group of 181 men and women between the ages of 20 and 64 asked to list their favorite search engine. Vivisimo tied with Yahoo for the second place in popularity with a score of 4.6 out of 5. Vivisimo has also been selected twice as the "Best MetaSearch Engine The search engine software that is used to search other search engines. See metasearch site. " by Search Engine Watch Search Engine Watch (SEW) is a website that provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing. [1] Search Engine Watch was started by Danny Sullivan in 1996. . "Vivisimo is an excellent alternative to Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). . It is fast, clean, and relevant, and it offers guiding search suggestions in the form of 'Clustered Results'," said Paul Gil, About.com Guide and long time Internet veteran. "It offers all the functionality and speed of Google, with 'Clustering' added. Once the users discovered Vivisimo, it quickly became a favorite." Vivisimo's unique clustering engine not only provides fast and relevant results, it also organizes the results into meaningful groups providing users a quick overview of the main ideas 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 the results. For example, with Clustering, if you search for the keywords "German shepherds German shepherd, breed of large, muscular working dog perfected in Germany at the turn of the 20th cent. It stands about 25 in. (64 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 60 to 85 lb (27.2–38.5 kg). ", Vivisimo will also offer you results organized by "breeds", "training", "breeders", "rescue", and "clubs". "We are pleased with the growing recognition for Vivisimo's Clustering," said Saman Haqqi, Director of Marketing at Vivisimo. "As the size of the Web indices continues to grow, Web searchers need to have this huge amount of data organized meaningfully. At Vivisimo, it is our mission to help people handle large amounts of data by presenting them with organized information." Top internet search sites, Fortune 500 companies, prestigious publishers, and government agencies as well as millions of users employ Vivisimo's unique Clustering Engine to organize search results on the fly into meaningful folders, thus achieving breakthrough improvement in access to relevant information. About Vivisimo, Inc. Vivisimo, Inc. provides intelligent software that helps enterprises to organize information from anywhere, any time, in any language. Its breakthrough clustering and meta-search products retrieve textual tex·tu·al adj. Of, relating to, or conforming to a text. tex  tu·al·ly adv. information from one or multiple sources and automatically organize the combined results on-the-fly into meaningful folders. This dynamic approach allows for rapid integration and categorization of content and significantly improves end-user access to relevant information. Vivisimo was founded by computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). and has been funded by the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program, private investors, and Innovation Works. It serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and partners throughout the world. The website http://vivisimo.com offers live product demonstrations and is considered the best consumer meta-search engine on the web. Note to Editors: There should be an accent mark Noun 1. accent mark - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation accent language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he over the second "i" in "Vivisimo". |
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