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Squirrel Hill start-up Vivismo lands 2 big clients
Tuesday, November 11, 2003

While the rest of us are sifting through page after page of our "Google" search, Squirrel Hill Internet search clustering developer Vivisimo Inc. has quietly been adding big-name customers for its software that makes searching the Web more efficient.

Yesterday, the 12-person Carnegie Mellon University spinoff announced its second publicly traded licensee in a month -- InfoSpace Inc., which owns such frequently used search engines as WebCrawler and Dogpile -- just a few weeks after it gleaned networking giant Cisco Systems as a customer.

The 3-year-old firm's focus is twofold. While marketing its search-clustering technology to Web search firms, Vivisimo also targets companies with in-house database-sorting needs, such as newspaper archives.

Chief Executive Officer Raul Valdes-Perez declined to discuss the specifics of the Cisco and InfoSpace deals. "We are a profitable company," said Saman Haqqi, Vivisimo's marketing director.

First published on November 11, 2003 at 12:00 am
Corilyn Shropshire can be reached at cshropshire@post-gazette.com or at 412-263-1413.