Yippy

Yippy was a metasearch engine that grouped searched results into clusters.[1][2] 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.

This article is about the search engine. For members of the radical 1960s youth movement ("Yippies"), see Youth International Party.
Yippy
Type of site
Metasearch engine
Available inEnglish
OwnerYippy, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Created byCarnegie Mellon University researchers
URLyippy.com
CommercialNo
Launched2004 (2004) (as Clusty)
2010 (2010) (as Yippy)
Current statusRedirecting to DuckDuckGo

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."[3]

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.[4]

As of 2021, the website redirects to DuckDuckGo.

History
Search results on Yippy, showing the grouped clusters on the left side

Clusty was developed by Vivísimo in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Vivísimo was a company built on Web search technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, much like Lycos was a decade earlier. Clusty added new features and a new interface to the previous Vivisimo clustering web metasearch. Different tabs also offer metasearches for news, jobs (in partnership with Indeed.com), U.S. government info and blogs. Customized tabs allow users to select sources for their own metasearch to create personalized tabs.

Yippy Inc., formerly Cinnabar Ventures Inc., acquired Clusty for $5.55 million in May 2010.[5] The acquisition included the license for the Velocity software, which was bought by IBM in 2012 and renamed IBM Watson Explorer.[6]

In 2012, Yippy received "Welcome to the Cloud" as a registered trademark with the USPTO.[7]

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 high sustainable and scalable use.[8]

Yippy received "Welcome to your Data" as a registered trademark with the USPTO.

In 2016, Yippy released its Yippy Search Appliance (YSA) as a Google Search Appliance (GSA) replacement to market after Google announced it was sunsetting the GSA and capitalize on the $500M revenue from the GSA.[9]

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 prominent Donald Trump supporters, including Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos. At the time, Granville also used many QAnon references on Twitter.[10]

In late April 2021, Yippy's site started redirecting to DuckDuckGo.[11] As of August 2021, the Georgia Secretary of State website shows Yippy, Inc's corporate status as "Revoked".[12]

See also

References
  1. "CI Review: Yippy". July 29, 2010.
  2. Inc, AdNabu. "AdNabu - Google Ads Software for E-Commerce". www.adnabu.com. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. "yippy - Google Search". www.google.com.
  4. Friedman, Dan (August 16, 2019). "Michael Flynn wants a judge to allow him to travel to a conference held by a QAnon fan". Mother Jones. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  5. "Yippy Acquires Metasearch Engine Clusty.com for $5.5 Million - Florida Technology Journal". Archived from the original on 2010-07-31.
  6. "Yippy growing by leaps, bounds". The News-Press. 23 May 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  7. "Yippy, Inc. (YIPI) Receives Two Trademarks from USPTO". OTC Markets. June 7, 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  8. Myers, Fort (June 19, 2013). "Yippy Licenses MuseGlobal's Muse Content Connector Technology". Yippy Inc. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  9. "The Best Google Search Appliance (GSA) Replacement". Yippy Inc. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  10. Friedman, Dan; Breland, Ali (August 13, 2019). "Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos are scheduled to speak at a conference organized by a QAnon supporter". Mother Jones. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  11. "Yippy Search Engine Review: Is It Worth Trying in 2021?". VPNpro. 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
  12. Georgia, Secretary of State (August 1, 2021). "Corporate Status". Retrieved August 1, 2021.
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