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New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google
Sophrosyne writes "The New York Times is reporting a new search engine [free if DNA on file with Homeland Security] named "Clusty" is going to try and take Google head-on. The new search engine was developed by three former CMU computer scientists who formed the company Vivisimo. The search engine uses Overture for it's results but offers new features such as an encyclopedia search, clustered results, and a gossip search."
The original engine was actually called Vivisimo,
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and the exact point you make was mentioned back then.
heres the article (january)
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/05/1839233.s
I think clusty.com is better, but now makes me think of unclean prostitutes.
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One of the default tabs you can add to its interface is for Slashdot.
After having just searched for "BinaryWrite ASP Stream" to see if it might produce the goods in trying to solve a little web page problem I have, clusty did actually turn up something I hadn't seen before. Maybe it is going to be OK?
0 416966), the world's latest addition to the steaming heap of soon-to-be-abandonware :-)
Back when Teoma came out I remember thinking the same thing, but soon forgot about it.
And yes, I have seen Linux. I was until a year ago a perpetual new-distro-installing-slut to see if Linux was up to scratch. Sadly, I still have to tinker and fiddle with the thing to even get it to recognise a frigging USB mouse (SuSE 9.0). Said USB mouse (Logitec optical) worked beautifully during the installer, but after rebooting, refused to work in X.
Hey, mabye I should install Syllable 0.5.4 (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124146&cid=1
Now there's a first. Not even Google has ever directly supported Mozilla - the Google toolbar from Google is IE only. And this one now has a Mozilla search plugin link on the front page. Kudos.
Beware the psychokinetic mimes!
on a search for "MILF" by putting the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in one category, and separating the more "mature" content in others.
/.'ers can think of other ambiguous search words where clustering helps. The UI could use some simplification, but otherwise I'm impressed.
It's not perfect, but it's a good start. I'm sure
One neat consequence for web marketers will be more targetted traffic. With Google, you have to hope searchers will be savvy enough to use 3-4 keywords to search for exactly what they want- if they can click on two more KWs that refine their search, we'll see the inventory of cheaper 3 KW terms go up significantly.
Information: "I want to be anthropomorphized"
According to the CEO the awkward name and the Krusty similarity were both intentional.
Valdes-Perez said his company dumped the name Vivisimo for the search engine because it was ``an obstacle.''
``It's a name that is difficult to pronounce and type and spell. Other than that, it's a great name,'' he quipped.
But the new name may face similar challenges, Valdes-Perez acknowledged. Though it is easy to remember, for many people Clusty evokes the name Krusty the Clown, the not-so-kid-friendly character on ``The Simpsons'' television show.
Valdes-Perez said he initially recoiled at the name Clusty, which was conceived by a business partner. But he found it more memorable than the vanilla-sounding names proposed by a professional branding company.
``A mildly negative association,'' Valdes-Perez said, ``will be swamped by a positive experience. And that's what we hope to offer.''