New search engine challenges GooglePosted 30/09/2004
Search engine firm Vivisimo has declared that Google is not the most efficient way to find things on the Internet.
The Pittsburgh-based company, founded by three former Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists, has launched a new search engine called Clusty.com, which has taken four years to develop.
The search engine's name refers to the clustering technology that Vivisimo has refined to sort search results into different categories related to the initial search request.
For instance, entering "San Francisco" into Clusty.com's search box produces a set of general results at the centre of the webpage, with a list of more specific categories, such as "Bay", "Hotel", "Art", "University" and "Giants" featured at the left.
Clicking on any of the subgroups then delivers a new list of links in the centre of the page while still preserving the different groups.
"There is almost too much information on the internet now," Vivisimo CEO Raul Valdes-Perez said. "We think we have a better way to differentiate the results."
However, Clusty covers a smaller number of webpages compared with search engines like Google and Yahoo. Clusty crawls just 5-10 million pages and draws upon indexes of other sources to supplement its results, while Google crawls a massive 4.3 billion webpages.
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