Clusty helps to make sure your search results don’t become too crusty. OK, bad joke. But you have to admit the categorizing that Clusty can offer is a pleasant change compared to Google’s mad list.

Clusty is the search site owned and operated by Vivísimo that aims to change the way people search online. It uses our award-winning Clustering Engine to organize search results into folders grouping similar items together. Thus a search for ‘pearl’ organizes the top 250-500 results into subject folders such as Jewelry, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Jam, Steinbeck Novel and Daniel Pearl. Clusty allows users to focus on the area of interest without all the chaff.

Vivísimo developed the Clustering Engine for enterprise search and only offered it on our web site as a demonstration of its capabilities. However, as international coverage, industry awards and word-of-mouth promotion brought millions of users to the site, we saw a huge demand from our users for a feature-rich, dedicated consumer search site. [Read the rest]

[tags]next-generation search,clusty,vivisimo,clustering engine,word-of-mouth promotion[/tags]