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Clusty

The clustering search engine

http://clusty.com/


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Type: Search Engine
Status: Public
Source: Vivisimo, Inc
Difficulty: Easy
Compatibility: N/A
Language: English
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Rather than focusing just on search engine result ranking, Clusty groups results into topics, or "clustering". Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. "Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can hone in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. When was the last time you went to the third or fourth page of the search results? Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.


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Andrea Lorenzet    28 Jun 2008    14:14
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Great way to cluster your results and to have meta-concepts guide you in your search.

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