Lusty for Clusty
Vivisimo’s new beta search engine, Clusty, is available at http://www.clusty.com.
You can limit the search right off the bat by choosing a category: Web, News, Images, Shopping, Encyclopedia, or Gossip.
The option of a gossip search was just too intriguing to pass up, so I did a Gossip search for Kevin Spacey. He only had three “clusters,” one of which was “Other.” I think I would rename this category “Famous People Stuff” instead of “Gossip,” but that wouldn’t fit nicely on a tab, now would it? The results are basically mainstream news stories about the person–play reviews, new movies, etc. So, I’m thinking, well maybe KS just hasn’t done anything sketchy lately, so I did a search for your friend and mine, Miss Britney. She was tabbed nicely–Britney & Kevin Federline, Britney & Jessica Simpson, Britney & Fashion. Much better results. I guess I just need to be more interested in mainstream famous folks. *sigh*
The other tabs all worked well, though it’s not clear that in addition to the clustered results on the left-side of the screen, the chunked-out bits of info in the center of the screen are also clusters. Not sure how to make this clearer though…perhaps people will just learn.
There’s also an advanced search available, for those of us who like to tweak and play with search engines. And you can customize your search, adding tabs for eBay and the like, as well as creating a tab which will search the search engines & directories of your choice. And guess what? LII is one of the directories you can pick! Yay LII!
All in all, LiB gives Clusty a solid B+.
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