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The next time you need to do an Internet search, clusty.com may become your first choice, thanks to a new feature that other search engines don’t have.

Like its competitor search engines, Clusty searches the Internet using the terms a user supplies.

But unlike its competitors, it returns a set of “clusters” on the left side of the search results. The clusters act as a set of topics associated with the search words.

Now, bloggers and webmasters can bring the convenience of clusters to their own sites via the Clusty Cloud, a tool that can be placed on a web page. The cloud is produced from a query on a relevant subject. For instance, if a blogger writes about robotics, he or she can place a cloud on the blogspace that groups results...