Yippy

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{{Short description|American metasearch engine}}
{{about|the search engine|members of the radical 1960s youth movement ("Yippies")|Youth International Party}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Yippy
| type = [[Metasearch engine]]
| language = English
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2004}} (as Clusty)<BR>{{Start date and age|2010}} (as Yippy)
}}
'''Yippy''' was a [[metasearch engine]] that grouped searched results into clusters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cascadeinsights.com/yippy/|title=CI Review: Yippy|date=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adnabu.com/|title=AdNabu - Google Ads Software for E-Commerce|first=AdNabu|last=AdNabu Inc|website=www.adnabu.com}}</ref> 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.

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."{{cn|date=September 2024}}

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."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Friedman |first=Dan |date=August 16, 2019 |title=Michael Flynn wants a judge to allow him to travel to a conference held by a QAnon fan |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/michael-flynn-wants-a-judge-to-allow-him-to-travel-to-a-conference-held-by-a-qanon-fan/ |website=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |access-date=April 19, 2021 }}</ref>

From late April 2021 to early June 2022, the website would redirect to [[DuckDuckGo]].{{cn|date=April 2024}}

==History==
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 metasearch for news, jobs (in partnership with Indeed.com), U.S. government information, and [[blogs]]. Customized tabs allow users to select sources for their own metasearch to create personalized tabs.{{cn|date=April 2024}}

Yippy Inc., formerly Cinnabar Ventureess Inc., acquired Clusty for $5.55 million in May 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.floridatechnologyjournal.com/sections/gulf-coast/130-news/525-yippy-acquires-metasearch-engine-clustycom-for-55-million |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731054639/http://www.floridatechnologyjournal.com/sections/gulf-coast/130-news/525-yippy-acquires-metasearch-engine-clustycom-for-55-million |archive-date=2010-07-31 |title=Yippy Acquires Metasearch Engine Clusty.com for $5.5 Million - Florida Technology Journal}}</ref> The acquisition included the license for the Velocity software, which was bought by IBM in 2012 and renamed IBM Watson Explorer.<ref name="Yippy">{{cite news
|url=http://www.news-press.com/article/20100523/BUSINESS/5230344/1014/BUSINESS/Yippy-growing-by-leaps--bounds
|title=Yippy growing by leaps, bounds
|publisher=[[The News-Press]]
|date=23 May 2010
|access-date=24 May 2010
}}</ref>

In 2012, Yippy received "Welcome to the Cloud" as a registered trademark with the USPTO.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yippy, Inc. (YIPI) Receives Two Trademarks from USPTO|url=http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/YIPI/news/Yippy-Recieves-Trademark?id=48455&b=y|website=OTC Markets|access-date=10 August 2017|date=June 7, 2012}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Myers|first1=Fort|title=Yippy Licenses MuseGlobal's Muse Content Connector Technology|url=http://www.yippyinc.com/insights/yippy-inc-licenses-museglobals/|website=Yippy Inc|access-date=10 August 2017|date=June 19, 2013}}</ref>

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 capitalizing on the $500M revenue from the GSA.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Best Google Search Appliance (GSA) Replacement|url=http://www.yippyinc.com/google-search-appliance-replacement|website=Yippy Inc|access-date=10 August 2017}}</ref>

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]].<ref name="flynn papadopoulos">{{Cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Dan |last2=Breland |first2=Ali |date=August 13, 2019 |title=Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos are scheduled to speak at a conference organized by a QAnon supporter |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/michael-flynn-and-george-papadopoulos-are-scheduled-to-speak-at-a-conference-organized-by-a-qanon-supporter/ |access-date=April 19, 2021 |website=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] }}</ref>

In late April 2021, Yippy's site started redirecting to [[DuckDuckGo]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-22|title=Yippy Search Engine Review: Is It Worth Trying in 2021?|url=https://vpnpro.com/web/yippy-search-engine/|access-date=2021-05-09|website=VPNpro|language=en-US}}</ref> As of August 2021, the Georgia Secretary of State website shows Yippy, Inc's corporate status as "Revoked".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Georgia|first=Secretary of State|date=August 1, 2021|title=Corporate Status|url=https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=2324463|access-date=August 1, 2021}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Data clustering]]
* [[Metasearch engine]]
* [[Vivísimo]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210420112636/https://www.yippy.com/ Archived page]

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