Yippy Acquires Clusty.com

Yippy, Inc., formerly Cinnabar Ventures, Inc. has successfully acquired Clusty.com, an award-winning metasearch engine developed by Vivisimo, an industry leader in information optimization and enterprise search.

Approximately 100,000 unique visitors are attracted by Clusty.com. It also supports millions of search queries per month. 'The combination of Yippy and Clusty, the gold standard of metasearch engines, ensures a formidable technological force that will provide a more wholesome and edited Internet experience for the Yippy family of users,' Richard Granville, CEO of Yippy, Inc, said.

In 2004, when the search software company Vivisimo decided to take its award-winning search technology to the web, Clusty got its start in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Three Carnegie Mellon University scientists founded Vivisimo in 2000 to tackle the problem of information overload in web search. The motto behind this action was to create a search platform that removed spam from search queries and only delivered the most relevant information to the end user.

'Clusty has found the perfect digital home with Yippy as they are a company that values an edited yet impactful Internet search,' John Kealey, CEO of Vivisimo, said. 'Rather than focusing just on search engine ranking, we realized that grouping results into topics, or 'clustering,' made for better search and discovery. Our service is robust enough to handle the variety of information that the Yippy user is looking for and provide the results in a family friendly format with the combination of Yippy and Clusty code sets.'

'Yippy/Clusty will provide a 'walled garden with windows' approach to the Internet via the Yippy Cloud. By incorporating search into its platform, Yippy can provide parents, educational institutions and government entities a much safer alternative for all web based activities. You no longer need Internet Explorer, Chrome or Mozilla to surf the web. All you need is Yippy and Yippy is good,' Granville, concluded.

In related news, Cinnabar Ventures, Inc. has executed a non-binding letter of intent for the acquisition of FiberCon Holdings, LLC's wholly-owned subsidiary, US Metropolitan Telecom, LLC.