Google's potential enemy Vivisimo October 3, 2004 Sunday
The director of the global network search engine faucet Google has been confident that they are most worried about the replacement of more advanced network search techniques. The company Vivisimo, founded by computer scientists at the University of Carnegun University, is now preparing, and Google's worries are not unfounded. Established four years of Vivisimo with the search results of Yahoors Overture in September 10, providing a free search service called Clusty (Clusty.com).
Vivisimo originally provided a search service for the company, which automatically classifies the search results to make it easier to organize. For example, if you search for the "Speedbo" two words, Vivisimo will list one hundred and forty-nine results and list the classification entries such as "Speedboats", "John Terry" on the left side.
The new CLUSTY service is fully supported by advertising revenue. It is also a similar organizational architecture, but it also provides a series of small entries. Users can see other sources outside the general web page, including shopping information, yellow pages, news, network Zhi and image, etc.
Vivisimo that has not yet been publicized, and Vivisimo that has begun will intend to expand more comprehensive competition with the search engine leading Google through the new CLUSTY website. Vivisimo uses the computer cluster technology to assist users quickly find the real-related search results. The page ranking technology used by Google may let the user fall into a large number of independent search results, but miss the answer that is really looking for.
Many online search experts say that cluster technology is more convenient to use as Google's web level systems. According to the editor of the website SearchEngineWatch for the librarians, it is pointed out that as the database is increasing, it is trying to find out what the information you want is in a wide range of information. It's more difficult, so users need additional help.
One of Vivisimo's founder and executive Director Vades - Qi Ruis pointed out that Google specializes in climbing more web information as much as possible, but Vivisimo's key points are to solve the problem of information explosion, he believes that focus is "Ignore information", that is, find technologies that eliminate unconfiguring information.
(New York Times)
