Please check the Quintura site search widget in the right sidebar on ReadWriteWeb. The widget increases user engagement on ReadWriteWeb as compared to a regular search box. As an example of displaying brand advertisements, we have recently embedded graphical ads next to keywords in the widget’s search cloud.

Quintura Kids is mostly used in the elementary schools and public libraries in the U.S. Several hundred school and teacher websites linked to the site since its launch in March 2007. Quintura Kids has 68 percent returning visitors and 60 percent of visitors come to the site directly, according to data from Google Analytics.

The search engine can be easily embedded onto any web or blog page by clicking the Embed it! link in the top-right corner of the screen and copying & pasting an embed code onto the page.

In June 2007, Quintura Kids was ranked the highest among the kid-friendly search engines by Search Engine Watch. The search engines for kids were ranked in five categories including a visual appeal to a child; relevance to a child, based on chosen searches; commercial vs. educational, with the educational slant creating a higher score; and ease of navigation for 7-10 year olds.

See also the news on AltSearchEngines.

Next, we plan to embed graphics in an interactive search cloud on Quintura Kids to make it even easier to navigate the Internet.

The educators Anna Adam and Helen Movers pointed in their article that “This [Quintura for Kids] site is another that helps students determine appropriate keywords, which can ultimately lead to better searches on mainstream search engines.”

To read the article “Start Your Search Engines: Taming Google (and Other Tips)“, please visit SLJ’s web-site.

As an example of a brand advertisement, we have embedded a graphical ad (ReadWriteWeb favicon) next to a keyword in the widget’s search cloud. By clicking the favicon next to keyword “search” in the cloud, the searchers will go to a post about top 100 alternative search engines on ReadWriteWeb.

Quintura recently launched a special offer Happy Spring! for web publishers and content owners that will embed Quintura search widget

After embedding the widget to its site, a content owner can select a keyword related to the site and display a favorite icon (favicon) next to the selected keyword in the search cloud on Quintura.com for a week.The favicon will have direct hyperlink to the site. When someone makes a search for a topic related to context of the selected keyword, both keyword and favicon will be displayed in the Quintura search cloud on Quintura.com.

The new offer from Quintura shall deliver the following advantages to site and blog owners.

• Bring additional visitors: Any site or blog can now attract additional visitors from Quintura.com who can see its site’s favorite icon (favicon) in the Quintura search cloud. By clicking the favicon, the searchers on Quintura.com will go to the web-site or blog.

• Increase brand awareness: The favicon is a part of any site’s visual identity. It is more catchy than text and thus brings additional attention to the site.

After embedding Quintura search widget to its site, a site owner can select a keyword related to the site and display a favorite icon (favicon) next to the selected keyword in the search cloud on Quintura.com for a week.

The favicon will have direct hyperlink to the site. When someone makes a search for a topic related to context of the selected keyword, both keyword and favicon will be displayed in the Quintura search cloud on Quintura.com.

The new offer Happy Spring! from Quintura is available on http://special.quintura.com

About Quintura

Quintura is a visual-based search engine for browsing and discovery-type search. Quintura has won the Alternative Search Engine of the Year, 2007 award from AltSearchEngines.com. Quintura was featured in both International and Russian editions of Newsweek in November 2007. The company is currently backed by Mangrove Capital Partners, the first institutional investors in Skype. Quintura has software development operations in the Moscow region of Russia.

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Check a special Quintura search cloud for the Women’s Day on Quintura.ru.

Quintura for site search delivers the same navigation principle to site and blog search that Quintura.com brings to web search – browsing content through Quintura dynamic search cloud that brings one deeper into the query with every click or mouse over.

Instead of presenting results in a list, Quintura puts together the cloud of related terms and allows users to browse results by topics. The Quintura search cloud on a site or blog displays semantic concepts from indexed pages. The site or blog user gets search results by either mousing over or clicking keywords and phrases in the cloud.

The web-site publishers and individual blog owners can register and submit their web-sites and blogs for indexing (including, via RSS feed) on http://affiliates.quintura.com. They can customize a look of the search cloud and get an embed code to copy and paste it onto their site or blog page as a search widget. Please check Quintura site search widget in the right sidebar on AltSearchEngines.com

The Quintura site search widget for individual site or blog can be embedded by its readers onto their own web-sites and blogs. Thus the site publishers and blog owners receive a viral tool to extend their readership onto other sites.

The Quintura search engine is embeddable onto a web or blog page as a web search widget. By clicking the Embed it! button above the search cloud on Quintura.com and its kid-friendly version Quintura Kids, the users can customize a look of the search cloud and get code for the web search widget.

Quintura plans to introduce a revenue generating model for affiliated web-sites and blogs by sharing revenues with site publishers and blog owners from clicks through graphical advertisements (images, logos and icons) displayed in the search clouds on affiliated web-sites and blogs.

Quintura affiliate program for site search is available on http://affiliates.quintura.com

About Quintura

Quintura is a visual-based search engine for browsing and discovery-type search. Quintura has won the Alternative Search Engine of the Year, 2007 award from AltSearchEngines.com. Quintura was featured in both International and Russian editions of Newsweek in November 2007.

The company is currently backed by Mangrove Capital Partners, the first institutional investors in Skype. Quintura has software development operations in the Moscow region of Russia.

The search cloud is embeddable onto a blog or web-site page by clicking Embed it! in the toolbar. Enjoy the holiday with specials from Quintura!

You can also get invites via ReadWriteWeb, the leading web technology analysis and review blog.

It’s free. It’s comfy. It’s Web 2.0ish and it’s hot because as Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb pointed out “Quintura uses Semantic Web technologies to power its search engine”.

It’s easy: you submit a site for indexing, customize a look of Quintura search cloud and grab an embed code & paste it into sidebar of your site.

Quintura for site search is for any individual site or blog owner and web publisher. As Kristen Nicole of Mashable noticed “more control is given to the end users and readers in terms of their interaction with search, and the results they receive”.

I would like to thank you the bloggers who have participated in early testing and embedded Quintura search widget onto their blogs including Nitin Karandikar of The Software Abstractions Blog, Markus Spark of The Museum of Modern Betas, and Ewan McIntosh of Edu.blogs.com.

Special thanks to Charles Knight who was the first to use Quintura for search on his blog AltSearchEngines.com

Try it out for yourself and let us know your views!

With Microsoft making an offer to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion, it should be a breeze for those startups that build standalone businesses rather than features. While the two would be merging to battle Google, one could build a business that will disrupt everyone in the future.