New search engine

My favorite search engine, Vivisimo (famous for clustering the search results) has just announced the beta version of a new search engine called Clusty. Clusty returns similar results as Vivisimo for a web search, with the clustered results in the left column, but it also features searching of news, images, and other things with tabs at the top.

I did a search on "census," our current topic for the Government Documents class. The clusters to the left include "Census 2000" and "Historical," both of which might be useful depending on the question at hand. The top of the main results page includes a couple of links that might encourage me to try the other searching features and two sponsored links. The first actual search result is (drum roll, please) the U.S. Census Bureau page--exactly what I want to see as the first result.

Clicking on the News tab does the same search but of news sources. Here, I learn about a census of elephants in Sri Lanka. I love some of the pictures that come up when I switch to the Image tag--a drawing of a Victorian-dressed man taking a census of a crowded household, a photo of the census shelves in a UK library, and scans of old census forms.

I learned about Clusty from the Search Engine Watch blog.     #

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