Editing Yippy (section)

{{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}}