Type of site | Metasearch engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2004; 22 years ago (2004) (as Clusty) 2010; 16 years ago (2010) (as Yippy) |
Yippy was ametasearch engine that grouped searched results into clusters.[1][2] It was originally developed and released byVivísimo in 2004 under the nameClusty, before Vivisimo was later acquired byIBM and Yippy was sold in 2010 to a company now called Yippy, Inc. At the time, the website received 100,000 unique visitors a month.
From August 2019, Yippy's main page stated their searches were powered byIBM Watson, asserting it was "theright search" (italics theirs) that delivered "fair search results based on balanced algorithms."[citation needed]
In 2019, Yippy CEO Rich Granville presented the search engine as free of censorship of conservative views, calling it an "intelligence enterprise" with high-level White House connections, telling a reporter "you don't know who you’re fucking with."[3]
From late April 2021 to early June 2022, the website would redirect toDuckDuckGo.[citation needed]
Clusty was developed by Vivísimo inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Vivísimo was a company built on Web search technology developed byCarnegie Mellon University researchers, much likeLycos was a decade earlier. Clusty added new features and a new interface to the previous Vivisimo clustering web metasearch. Different tabs also offer metasearch for news, jobs (in partnership with Indeed.com), U.S. government information, andblogs. Customized tabs allow users to select sources for their own metasearch to create personalized tabs.[citation needed]
Yippy Inc., formerly Cinnabar Ventureess Inc., acquired Clusty for $5.55 million in May 2010.[4] The acquisition included the license for the Velocity software, which was bought by IBM in 2012 and renamed IBM Watson Explorer.[5]
In 2012, Yippy received "Welcome to the Cloud" as a registered trademark with the USPTO.[6]
Yippy acquired MuseGlobal 6,500 pre-built Smart Connectors fully documented Source Factory that monitors, maintains and updates the Muse Smart Connectors on a 24/7 basis and guarantees highly sustainable and scalable use.[7]
Yippy received "Welcome to your Data" as a registered trademark with theUSPTO.
In 2016, Yippy released its Yippy Search Appliance (YSA) as aGoogle Search Appliance (GSA) replacement to market after Google announced it was sunsetting the GSA and capitalizing on the $500M revenue from the GSA.[8]
In 2019, Yippy Inc. CEO Rich Granville organized in Atlanta a "Digital Soldiers Conference", with the aim of preparing "patriotic social media warriors" for a coming "digital civil war" against "censorship and suppression". The event featured several prominentDonald Trump supporters, includingMichael Flynn andGeorge Papadopoulos. At the time, Granville also used manyQAnon references onTwitter.[9]
In late April 2021, Yippy's site started redirecting toDuckDuckGo.[10] As of August 2021, the Georgia Secretary of State website shows Yippy, Inc's corporate status as "Revoked".[11]