Quintura uses a new visual search technology

Feb 27, 2007 11:05 GMT  ·  By

Recently, I presented an interesting innovation in the search engines market that can help you find information easier. The visual search technologies are quite interesting because they provide a search interface bundled with an improved relevancy of the search queries. Quintura is one of the visual search engines available on the Internet, being sponsored by Skype and Piczo investors.

Since the release date, the product was available as a downloadable application but the company decided to relaunch it today, making Quitura an online search engine. It works on the same visual search technology, providing an interesting interface that allows you to browse among the most popular keywords in certain categories using only mouse clicks.

"Quintura offers an intuitive way to refine and narrow a search. The innovative graphical user interface of Quintura presents search results in two panes - the left pane contains a preset interactive tag cloud and the right pane lists search results. The intuitive nature of the cloud allows web users to refine their search by clicking on tags that appear in the cloud. Holding a mouse cursor over a tag in the cloud causes new, related tags to appear surrounding an original tag and search results to change in the scrollable right pane. Clicking a tag in the cloud the web users can easily refine a search and navigate through visual clusters of search results," the company sustained in a press release.

Although the search engine is flagged as beta, it provides multiple search functions including web search, image search, video search and amazon search. It also offers a configuration menu allowing users to set up the animation quality, the preset cloud and the coverage of the visual map. TechCrunch also reported the latest version of the visual search technology based in Moscow includes a security function meant to protect children against certain content provided on the SERP.

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