Yippy

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
Launched2004; 20 years ago (2004) (as Clusty)
2010; 14 years ago (2010) (as 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.

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."[citation needed]

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."[3]

From late April 2021 to early June 2022, the website would redirect to DuckDuckGo.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "CI Review: Yippy". July 29, 2010.
  2. ^ AdNabu Inc, AdNabu. "AdNabu - Google Ads Software for E-Commerce". www.adnabu.com.
  3. ^ 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.