Vivísimo

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Vivísimo Inc.
Type Private
Founded Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2000)
Headquarters Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Key people Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO
Jerome Pesenti, Chief Scientist
Chris Palmer, CTO
Industry Internet
Products Vivísimo Velocity enterprise search suite
Website vivisimo.com

Vivísimo is privately held enterprise search software company in Pittsburgh specialising in the development of software to improve search on the web and in enterprises. The focus of Vivísimo'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.

Vivísimo technology is available to enterprise in the form of a cohesive search suite, Vivísimo Velocity, which includes the Velocity Search Engine, Velocity Clustering Engine and Velocity Content Integrator. The technology is also freely available to the public in the form of Clusty: a free, clustering search engine at clusty.com.

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Vivísimo was founded in 2000 by a trio of computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. 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, Vivísimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov, the official web portal of the US Government.

The company is funded from a variety of sources, including Innovation Works, the National Science Foundation, and private investors. Its products are used by a wide variety of websites, companies, and government agencies.[1]

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