Yippy
Yippy was a metasearch engine that grouped searched results into clusters. It was originally developed and released by Vivísimo in 2004 under the name Clusty, before Vivisimo was later acquired by IBM 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.
Type of site | Metasearch engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Yippy, Inc., Atlanta, GA |
| Created by | Carnegie Mellon University researchers |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2004 (as Clusty) 2010 (as Yippy) |
| Current status | Returned to service as of January 2024 |
From August 2019, Yippy's main page stated their searches were powered by IBM Watson, asserting it was "the right search" (italics theirs) that delivered "fair search results based on balanced algorithms."
Also in 2019, Yippy, Inc. CEO Rich Granville presented the search engine as free of censorship of conservative views and called the company an "intelligence enterprise" with high-level White House connections.
From late April 2021 to early June 2022 the website would redirect to DuckDuckGo.
This was then followed by a coming soon page, see archive, on June 4th and then an about page, see archive, on June 7th. This slowly advanced to a coming soon page announcing that the new yippy search engine is coming in 2024, see archive.