Vivisimo was a privately held technology company in

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, specialising in the development of computer

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in May 2012 and is now branded a
IBM Watson Explorer
a product of the IBM Watson Group. Vivisimo's public

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and document clustering. For example, Vivisimo clustering could divide the results of a search for "cell" into groups including "biology", "battery", and "prison". Vivisimo software supported both structured and unstructured information.

History

Vivisimo was founded in 2000 by three computer science researchers at

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: Chris Palmer, Jerome Pesenti, and Raul Valdes-Perez. The name was taken from the Spanish superlative adjective ''vivísimo'' meaning "very lively" or "very clever." In October 2008, Vivisimo was awarded the contract to power the search portion of FirstGov.gov (now called USA.gov), the official web portal of the

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. In 2012,

acquired Vivisimo to boost its

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Products

Velocity was sold as an installed or hosted application to enterprises, governments, and OEMs. With Vivisimo providing additional professional services. Velocity's social search features allowed users to contribute to organizational content by tagging, voting, annotating and sharing search results. The contributions are instantly indexed in new searches.

References

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