Finally, I can show people what I’ve been working on for nearly a month. Isn’t she beautiful? But this is a big update, and there’s more to it than just the obvious graphical improvements courtesy of yours truly. The big news for this push includes the Gov tab, originally conceived as a showcase for our government demos, like the 9/11 Report that was featured on the New York Times website. Quickly, though, the Gov tab ballooned into a significant project in its own right, with our Gov+ search: a metasearch of political news, FirstGov and MSN confined to the “.gov” domain, with what just might be our coolest collection yet–a metasearch of several major Washington think tanks. Add to that the Congressional keymatch (try typing in your ZIP code, or the name of your state–or even just the postal abbreviation), and it’s hard to deny the just straight-up coolness of Clusty.

The loyal and observant Clusterati might notice the weather keymatch powered by the Weather Channel, or that you can now customize your results with options like how many results and clusters you prefer, whether to display the URL or sources, how big the preview window should be, where to open new links by default, et cetera ad infinitum.

To say nothing of the new press page, where you can see what less biased writers have to say about the Single Greatest Search Site on all the Internets!!!

See also A Philosophy of Clustering. The same disclaimer there still applies here. I don’t set policy at Vivísimo, I just work there. My incredibly radical viewpoints and philosophies are not those of Vivísimo; they’re not even shared by my co-workers. I’m just a lowly Software Engineer–and a bit of a clustering fan boy–and my thoughts and opinions should be taken as entirely my own, and in no way a reflection of Vivísimo or its official stances, opinions or policies.