Vivisimo: Repetition Is Good but…
November 9, 2011
Remember Ground Hog Day? The movie showed a protagonist repeating actions again and again. A Jean Paul Sartre mixed with Samuel Beckett moment. Yikes.
In the early 2000s several competitors went head to head in an effort to win the love and devotion of search users the world around. Smart companies realized quickly that Google was in the lead and dropped out of the race with their dignity intact. Vivisimo was one such competitor and as the Pittsburgh Tribune writes in the article, Vivisimo Matures, Shifts Focus from Web to Internal Searches, remarketed itself as enterprise search.
The original buddies who started Vivisimo are still in leadership positions and President, Kevin Calderwood, claims Vivisimo was ready to fill in the gaps Google missed – secured data from internal sources within businesses and government entities. Of their technique of search, the article explains,
The original “clustering” search technology Pesenti, Palmer and Valdes-Perez pioneered is still at the heart of Vivisimo’s evolving products. Earlier this year, Vivisimo was awarded a patent for “remix clustering,” a technology that groups together search results into clusters of information and allows searchers to remix the cluster categories that are offered to mine results more deeply.
While true that an interesting business methods patent was awarded to the company, it does not change that they are basically doing what they have always done–search. We will give them a round of applause for reading the writing on the wall and veering away from the Google giant before things got embarrassing for Clusty, a metasearch engine. Now I want more than the fuzzy “information optimization.” Vivisimo was one of six companies profiled in Stephen E Arnold’s The New Landscape of Enterprise Search. Now I want the earth tilled and a new crop of functions.
Catherine Lamsfuss, November 9, 2011
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