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Offline iago

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"Clusty" search engine
« on: October 06, 2006, 11:41:11 am »
Clusty is a search engine, created in '04, by a company called Vivisimo, which was formed by a couple University students looking for a better way to search the web. 

It queries several of the top search engines, and instead of just using result-ranking to sort out the results, they also use result-clustering, which puts similar results together, making searches a little easier. 

I played around with it a little bit, and I like what I see.  I installed the FireFox Browser Thing for clusty, and I'm going to give it a fair shot to see if it can be better than Google. 
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Re: "Clusty" search engine
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2006, 12:42:51 pm »
This sounds a lot like www.dogpile.com

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Re: "Clusty" search engine
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2006, 11:13:48 am »
This sounds a lot like www.dogpile.com
The entire point of Clusty is that it categorizes ('clusters') results.  Dogpile doesn't.  So they aren't alike in any important way.

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Re: "Clusty" search engine
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2006, 11:04:25 am »
www.google.com
^That is what impresses me.

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Re: "Clusty" search engine
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2006, 11:10:03 am »
www.google.com
^That is what impresses me.
What's good about "searchmash.com"? 

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Re: "Clusty" search engine
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2006, 11:12:49 am »
www.google.com
^That is what impresses me.
What's good about "searchmash.com"? 
Its the experimental site for Google.

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Re: "Clusty" search engine
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2006, 12:22:32 pm »
Its the experimental site for Google.
Ah, cool.  I don't like it as much as the real Google, though.. :-/

Where'd you hear about that?

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Re: "Clusty" search engine
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2006, 12:32:53 pm »
CNET, it was on the RSS feed but it disappeared, I think Google probably wants it to keep it relatively none Google brand name for testing purposes.