Vivísimo
Encyclopedia
Vivisimo is a privately held enterprise search
software company in Pittsburgh
that develops and sells software products to improve search on the web and in enterprises. The focus of Vivisimo's research thus far has been the concept of clustering
search results based on topic: for example, dividing the results of a search for "cell" into groups like "biology," "battery," and "prison." This process allows users to intuitively narrow their search results to a particular category or browse through related fields of information, and seeks to avoid the "overload" problem of sorting through too many results.
Vivisimo's main product offering is Velocity — an enterprise search platform that unifies access to secure business repositories. Vivisimo was first to offer social search
, which lets enterprise users share their knowledge with coworkers by tagging, ranking, and annotating search results.
Vivisimo developed and formerly owned the public web search service Clusty
, now known as Yippy.
- Chris Palmer, Jerome Pesenti, and Raul Valdes-Perez. The name was taken from the Latin root viva for "life," with the Romance suffix -issimo indicating a superlative. Earlier marketing tied this to the company's older tagline, "bright, lively, and intelligent."
In October 2005, Vivisimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov (now called USA.gov
), the official web portal of the United States federal government.
The company was initially funded by the founders, Innovation Works, and SBIR grants from the National Science Foundation
. Its products are used by a wide variety of websites, companies, and government agencies.
s. Vivisimo provides professional services, acknowledging that enterprise search in complex corporate environments benefits from the shared experience of similar deployments elsewhere.
Velocity's social search
features allow users to contribute to organizational content by tagging, voting, annotating and sharing search results. The contributions are instantly indexed in new searches, which helps foster collaboration throughout the enterprise.
Enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.-Enterprise search summary:...
software company in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
that develops and sells software products to improve search on the web and in enterprises. The focus of Vivisimo's research thus far has been the concept of clustering
Data clustering
Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of assigning a set of objects into groups so that the objects in the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in other clusters....
search results based on topic: for example, dividing the results of a search for "cell" into groups like "biology," "battery," and "prison." This process allows users to intuitively narrow their search results to a particular category or browse through related fields of information, and seeks to avoid the "overload" problem of sorting through too many results.
Vivisimo's main product offering is Velocity — an enterprise search platform that unifies access to secure business repositories. Vivisimo was first to offer social search
Social search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
, which lets enterprise users share their knowledge with coworkers by tagging, ranking, and annotating search results.
Vivisimo developed and formerly owned the public web search service Clusty
Clusty
Clusty was a metasearch engine developed by Vivísimo which offered clusters of results. It is now known as Yippy. Vivísimo is a company built on Web search technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, much like Lycos was a decade earlier. Clusty added new features and a new...
, now known as Yippy.
History
Vivisimo was founded in 2000 by a trio of computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
- Chris Palmer, Jerome Pesenti, and Raul Valdes-Perez. The name was taken from the Latin root viva for "life," with the Romance suffix -issimo indicating a superlative. Earlier marketing tied this to the company's older tagline, "bright, lively, and intelligent."
In October 2005, Vivisimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov (now called USA.gov
USA.gov
USA.gov is the official web portal of the United States government. It is designed to improve the public’s interaction with the U.S. government by quickly directing website visitors to the services or information they are seeking, and by inviting the public to share ideas to improve government...
), the official web portal of the United States federal government.
The company was initially funded by the founders, Innovation Works, and SBIR grants from the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
. Its products are used by a wide variety of websites, companies, and government agencies.
Products
Velocity is sold as an installed or hosted application to enterprises, governments, and OEMOEM
OEM means the original manufacturer of a component for a product, which may be resold by another company.OEM may also refer to:-Computing:* OEM font, or OEM-US, the original character set of the IBM PC, circa 1981...
s. Vivisimo provides professional services, acknowledging that enterprise search in complex corporate environments benefits from the shared experience of similar deployments elsewhere.
Velocity's social search
Social search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
features allow users to contribute to organizational content by tagging, voting, annotating and sharing search results. The contributions are instantly indexed in new searches, which helps foster collaboration throughout the enterprise.
Product Awards
- InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year - Best Enterprise Search
- InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year - Best Enterprise Search
- InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year - Best Enterprise Search
- Network Computing Editor's Choice - Enterprise Search Review