Vivisimo was a privately held technology company in

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, specialising in the development of computer search engines. The company was acquiredIBM Completes Acquisition of Vivisimo
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IBM Watson Explorer
a product of the IBM Watson Group. Vivisimo's public

web search engine A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...

Clusty was a metasearch engine with

document clustering Document clustering (or text clustering) is the application of cluster analysis to textual documents. It has applications in automatic document organization, topic extraction and fast information retrieval or filtering. Overview Document cluster ...

; it was sold to Yippy, Inc. in 2010. Vivisimo specialized in federated search and

. Clustering divides the results of a search for "cell" into groups including "biology", "battery", and "prison". Vivisimo software supported both structured and unstructured information.

History

Vivisimo was founded in 2000 by three computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon University: Chris Palmer, Jerome Pesenti, and Raul Valdes-Perez. The name was taken from the Spanish superlative adjective ''vivísimo'' meaning "very lively" or "very clever." In October 2008, Vivisimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov (now called USA.gov), the official web portal of the

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. In 2012, IBM acquired Vivisimo to boost its Big Data Analytics capabilities .Data discovery and exploration - IBM acquires Vivisimo
/ref>IBM Advances Big Data Analytics with Acquisition of Vivisimo
/ref>IBM Acquires Enterprise Search Software Company Vivisimo To Boost Big Data Analytics
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Products

Velocity was sold as an installed or hosted application to enterprises, governments, and

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s. With Vivisimo providing additional professional services. Velocity's

social search Social search is a behavior of retrieving and searching on a social searching engine that mainly searches user-generated content such as news, videos and images related search queries on social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram an ...

features allowed users to contribute to organizational content by tagging, voting, annotating and sharing search results. The contributions are instantly indexed in new searches.

References

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