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Vivisimo Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Internet
Founded	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2000)
Headquarters	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Key people	John Kealey, CEO Kevin Calderwood, President Jerome Pesenti, Chief Scientist Chris Palmer, CTO
Products	Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform
Website	www.vivisimo.com

Vivisimo is a privately held enterprise search software company in Pittsburgh that develops and sells software products to improve search on the web and in enterprises. The focus of Vivisimo'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.
Vivisimo's main product offering is Velocity — an enterprise search platform that unifies access to secure business repositories.^{[citation needed]} Vivisimo was first^{[citation needed]} to offer social search, which lets enterprise users share their knowledge with coworkers by tagging, ranking, and annotating search results.
Vivisimo developed and formerly owned the public web search service Clusty, now known as Yippy.

History

Vivisimo was founded in 2000 by a trio of computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon University - Chris Palmer, Jerome Pesenti, and Raul Valdes-Perez. 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, Vivisimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov (now called USA.gov), the official web portal of the United States federal government.^[1]
The company was initially funded by the founders, Innovation Works, and SBIR grants from the National Science Foundation. Its products are used by a wide variety of websites, companies, and government agencies.

Products

Velocity is sold as an installed or hosted application to enterprises, governments, and OEMs. Vivisimo provides professional services, acknowledging that enterprise search in complex corporate environments benefits from the shared experience of similar deployments elsewhere.
Velocity's social search features allow users to contribute to organizational content by tagging, voting, annotating and sharing search results. The contributions are instantly indexed in new searches, which helps faster collaboration throughout the enterprise.