What is klusty8?

Klusty8 is a search tool that tries to make search results easier to digest by grouping them into eight logical categories instead of showing one long flat list. When you search for something on a typical search engine, you get dozens of links with no organization. This project takes the top 50 results from Bing and sorts them into eight themed clusters so you can quickly narrow in on the angle you care about. Under the hood, it fetches those 50 results, then groups them using a clustering algorithm that measures how similar pages are to one another. Rather than working with numeric data, it compares the words and content of each result and puts similar pages together. The title of each cluster comes from whichever result ends up at the "center" of that group. Because the starting points are chosen randomly, the same search may produce slightly different groupings each time you run it. This would be useful for anyone who feels overwhelmed by unorganized search results and wants a quicker sense of the main topics within a query. For example, if you search a broad term, you might get clusters that separate news articles, tutorials, product pages, and discussion forums into their own buckets. A founder doing market research or a PM exploring a new space could skim the eight cluster titles and jump straight to the relevant group instead of scrolling through unrelated links. The project was built as a learning exercise, pulling together web algorithms, front-end interactivity, and cloud deployment on Google App Engine. The creator notes that the clustering implementation is a simplified version, so it's more of a proof of concept than a production search product.