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Searchenginewatch.com -- By Chris Sherman & Gary Price -- September 30, 2004

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.

Despite the awkward name, Clusty is an elegant new search tool that takes underground favorite Vivisimo to a new level. In addition to presenting both standard web search results and Vivisimo's dynamic clusters that automatically categorize results, Clusty draws on several new sources of information.

"You're seeing a rich complex mixture of selective crawling of sites, with meta searching of sites and clustering," said Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo.

Clusty is designed to be a consumer web search destination, rather than a technology showcase on the Vivisimo corporate web server. Previously, Vivisimo has licensed its technologies to others, such as InfoSpace's Dogpile meta search engine. Now, "we are stepping up and saying 'yes, do your web searches here,'" said Valdes-Perez.

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