Yahoo back on Vivisimo

[mfagan]

Yahoo and Netscape were previously removed from Vivisimo, possibly because they contain Google results. Perhaps the return of Yahoo signifies that it won't be using Google?

[jeremy goodrich]

I don't know if I would stretch it that far (saying that meant Google and Yahoo were sticking together), but it is nice to see more options on vivisimo.

It's really a cool site and set up they have, however, I've yet to see referral #1 on my stuff :)

[Brad]

It looks like they dropped Openfind. I get some referrals from Vivisimo, however this is not a very large selection of web SE's at all. I would expect a few more as options for the advanced search. I hope they can decide on some providers that they can stick with.

[kmarcus]

I think vivisimo is more focused on trying to sell their software product that becoming the 'next meta search engine destination' - so you might not see any referrers from vivisimo.com but perhaps you would see them from someone using their stuff (who i couldn't point you to).

[jeremy goodrich]

Good point, kmarcus.

Their site does seem to be more focused on selling their software / instead of providing a better user experience.

However, I can't help but think with so many bells and whistles, it's got to be terribly hard to design a user interface that will get used and is easy to understand when they have so many things to click on.

[rubble88]

You can also demo Vivisimo's dynamic document clustering technology
with many specialized search databases at:

[vivisimo.com...]

Categories include government, business, universities, etc.

Also, Vivisimo's "Preview" feature continues to be a wonderful tool.
You'll find it on the results list next to the page title. You'll need to be using IE.