Metasearch engine Clusty becomes Yippy
The metasearch engines – search engines that combine data from several search engines – are not as popular as they used to be in the 1990′s. But they can still add something new to your search experience, especially as regards user interface and the way they present results.
One of our favorite metasearch engines is Clusty, owned and developed by Vivisimo. As the name implies, Clusty has been especially good at clustering search results in meaningful groups or topics of result listings.
Vivisimo has now sold Clusty to a Florida based company named Yippy for US$5.6 million. The name change has already taken place. Clusty is no more. Yippy has taken its place.
Clusty.com attracts approximately 100,000 unique visitors and supports millions of search queries per month. To what extent Yippy will change the Clusty metaseach engine beyond the logo, is unknown.
Press release.
See also: Vivisimo Says So Long To Clusty as Florida’s Yippy Acquires the Technology To Power Their Search (Resourceshelf)
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