Google about to get owned?

**Fletch XXX** · 09-05-2003, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by Armed & Hammered
I was listening to NPR a little bit ago and one of the founders of Google was on. Someone called in to the show and said that he "used to be a big fan of Google" and said he now uses http://www.vivisimo.com. While I was in the car I thought "What a fucking idiot". Once I was back at my desk I decided to check it out. This thing is pretty fucking cool honestly.

It wasn't that long ago that someone said "Hey, check out this new search engine called Google". I didn't think it could touch Yahoo or Infoseek at the time. Obviously I was wrong. Could this document clustering method be the next big thing?

I remember that day too.

hahaha

Lemme check this vivishit out.

**gornyhuy** · 09-05-2003, 11:50 AM

I thought the same thing when Teoma.com came out.
Their relevancy is at least as good as googles.

Not a ton of traffic yet though I imagine.

**Yo Adrian** · 09-05-2003, 11:54 AM

Damn, Vivisimo is pretty handy.. I like the clustering. I searched for "terrorists" under Top News, not only does it return links to a ton of news articles regarding terrorists but it clusters a bunch of releated terms on the left including Iraq, suspected, FBI, Al Qaeda, charges and more..... very sweet.

**420** · 09-05-2003, 11:55 AM

they need a domain name thats easier to remember if they want to own google

**Babaganoosh** · 09-05-2003, 12:00 PM

Originally posted by 420
they need a domain name thats easier to remember if they want to own google

Yeah, I said the same thing about Google a few years ago. "Google", WTF is that? Now I can't hardly remember any other URLs.

**gornyhuy** · 09-05-2003, 12:02 PM

Shit man! Vivisimo rules.

Really nice results, very relevant, very well organized, pretty deep digging too.

**Babaganoosh** · 09-05-2003, 12:03 PM

ATTN GOOGLE:

I still love you. Please don't hurt me.

**MetaMan** · 09-05-2003, 12:06 PM

im not 100% sure but i think these are the same kids i saw on tv who came up with this technology and were advised not to sell their idea to companies for sums of even 12 million,

i think it could very well be the next thing.

**Carlito** · 09-05-2003, 12:11 PM

This thing is definately handy - I didn`t realize it til I started discussing it with a friend:

(13:02:00) b a l d t a c o: i like google
(13:02:05) cArliTo: everyone does.
(13:02:09) cArliTo: me too.
(13:02:10) b a l d t a c o: hahah
(13:02:13) cArliTo: but this thing is fucked
(13:02:14) cArliTo: look
(13:02:15) cArliTo: do this
(13:02:20) cArliTo: type porn
(13:02:24) cArliTo: then on the first result
(13:02:33) cArliTo: click 'show in clusters' and look on the left
(13:02:34) cArliTo:

(13:02:45) cArliTo: you think it`ll give you CP links
(13:02:47) cArliTo: but it dont
(13:02:53) cArliTo: it gives you news articles about the FBI
(13:02:54) cArliTo: 8)
(13:03:26) cArliTo: pretty handy for research
(13:03:33) cArliTo: gives you all the related subjects
(13:03:34) cArliTo: so
(13:03:37) b a l d t a c o: haha
(13:03:48) cArliTo: if you search for ' american history' it probably gives you a ton of options
(13:04:11) cArliTo: Yeah it does
(13:04:14) b a l d t a c o: yeah

**Evil1** · 09-05-2003, 12:15 PM

That name sucks massive cock, but i just bookmarked the fucker.

**Fu-Q** · 09-05-2003, 12:18 PM

actually this thing is kinda neat

**eroswebmaster** · 09-05-2003, 12:27 PM

and check out the "preview" windows.

pretty cool nice site.

**Penthouse_mike** · 09-05-2003, 12:29 PM

It looks like a meta-search engine. It uses MSN,lycos, netscape, etc for its results. I would be more impressed if it uses its own spider.

**x-vision** · 09-05-2003, 01:03 PM

very handy, i like the preview option.

**wizz** · 09-05-2003, 01:08 PM

The name is hard to remember!

**Theo** · 09-05-2003, 01:09 PM

Originally posted by Penthouse_mike
It looks like a meta-search engine. It uses MSN,lycos, netscape, etc for its results. I would be more impressed if it uses its own spider.

exactly,it's nothing else than a metasearch with cool layout. It won't go far.

**goBigtime** · 09-05-2003, 01:11 PM

Originally posted by 420
they need a domain name thats easier to remember if they want to own google

**stevecore** · 09-05-2003, 01:11 PM

cool! stalls my web browser just like google!!

**cherrylula** · 09-05-2003, 01:11 PM

Originally posted by Penthouse_mike
It looks like a meta-search engine. It uses MSN,lycos, netscape, etc for its results. I would be more impressed if it uses its own spider.

Googlebot owns.

**foreverjason** · 09-05-2003, 01:12 PM

Problem is google is very smart. They probably already know about this and are developing there own system.

Either way, google still owns!

**Yo Adrian** · 09-05-2003, 01:17 PM

Originally posted by stevecore
cool! stalls my web browser just like google!!

Stalls your browser? What are you on, Win95? lol

**Tuga** · 09-05-2003, 01:29 PM

This is a fucking cool SE

**fnet** · 09-05-2003, 01:35 PM

Vivisimo is not very different from the html version of French search engine Kartoo:

http://www.kartoo.com/en/kartoo.html

which has been around for some time.

**aaron** · 09-05-2003, 01:48 PM

kartoo's appearence owns vivsimo

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