"Clusty" search engine

[iago]

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. 

[Killer360]

This sounds a lot like www.dogpile.com

[iago]

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.

[Nate]

www.google.com
^That is what impresses me.

[iago]

www.google.com
^That is what impresses me.

What's good about "searchmash.com"? 

[Nate]

www.google.com
^That is what impresses me.

What's good about "searchmash.com"? 

Its the experimental site for Google.

[iago]

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?

[Nate]

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.