Per and Susanne Koch, editors of Pandia, said about Quintura Kids:

“..If these are not what you were looking for, a search cloud hovers above: Your search term is highlighted in the middle of related terms. As you point your mouse to the terms in the cloud, Quintura modifies your query and the search results. Even though this might not be as intuitive as Boolify, it is easy to understand how Quintura Kids works.”

The Quintura search cloud helps to determine user intent and gives search directions. In addition to Quintura Kids, Quintura offers hosted site search service for online publishers, Quintura Site Search.

Larry Ferlazzo, editor of Websites of the Day, said about Quintura:

“It provides search results in a visual “cloud.” I’d characterize it as similar to the present version of Kartoo, the well-known search engine, but much less confusing”

The Quintura search cloud helps to determine user intent and gives search directions. In addition to being a search destination, Quintura offers hosted site search service, Quintura Site Search and safe, visual-based search engine for children, Quintura for Kids.

“We have to get from the sort of casual use of asking, querying…to “what did you mean?””, he told to TechCrunch.

The search technology that powers Quintura visual-based search services such as Quintura Site Search and Quintura for Kids operates like a human brain. Quintura, whose index features a search cloud of related terms to easily refine searching, returns search results based on meaning and not keywords. Its search index is based on contextual relationships among search terms.

Quintura has been awarded five U.S. patents for its neural networking search technology and graphical search interface. –The patents validate neural networks for search, visualization and context management, contextual accuracy and relevance of search results, and use of neural networks for keyword generation.

That is why some major providers of online information has expressed serious interest in licensing the Quintura technology for meaning-based search and navigation.

See also Quintura’s Search Cloud vs. Google’s Wonder Wheel.

The block with site search results is made dynamic in order to help your site users pay more attention to a search cloud.

The block is hidden until users mouse over or click any word/phrase in the cloud.

Then the respective search results will pop up below the search cloud.

The number of search result links and annotations can be changed in Publisher account settings on Quintura site for Affiliates.

We believe that this feature will improve user experience and increase a number of search result clicks.

If you need help with implementation of Quintura search cloud for your site, please write us to publisher at quintura dot com.

To try this new feature, please check the site search widget in the left sidebar on this blog.

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Here is an explanation why Rick turned to Quintura:

“Because I can’t monitor my kids’ computer activity every second of the day, I’m starting by replacing Google with Quintura. This kid-friendly search engine lets you type in a query and/or click your way through a word cloud and get G-rated results in return.”

Since 2007, the teachers and librarians of more than 1,000 elementary schools in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand have been using Quintura for Kids, a kids-friendly search engine developed and operated by Quintura.

Here are screen shots of search for “Apple + iPhone” on Quintura.com and Google.com.

To join the conversation, go to the Twitter search for “Quintura” or leave your comments here on this blog.

Will this be the end of the visual search engines or just the beginning?

The Forum, which is organized by Incisive Media, will feature keynotes from top executives at Thomson Reuters, Telegraph Media Group, The Economist Group, Reed Business, etc. Quintura is one of the platinum sponsors of the Forum together with search engine Exalead and Mondeca.

The presentation will focus on using Quintura Site Search by online publishers to drive engagement with site visitors in order to increase content consumption and Click-Through-Rate.

To sign up as a delegate of the Forum at a discount rate, please quote the Quintura name at the time of booking and receive 10% off the full package rate. Please contact Joanna Letts either by email (joanna.letts@incisivemedia.com) or call her at +44 (0) 207 316 9361.

• New Mini-Cloud Settings – settings for search results display,
• Banners – an interface to enable embedding images within search clouds.

New Mini-Cloud Settings

Display search results under the Quintura search widget. If this parameter is disabled, the widget will have no search results displayed and users will go directly to the full-size Quintura search cloud on a separate site page by clicking a word in the widget’s search cloud.

If a mini-cloud has search results displayed, the other parameters shall be set to open the full-size search cloud by Clicking a word or Clicking a result. On the full-size search cloud the selected search result will have a detailed annotation.

Banners

In tests, the favicons and banners that are embedded in the Quintura search clouds attract user interest to site search and have a higher Click-Through-Rate (CTR). The Quintura affiliates that embed its site search now have the option to associate images (banners) with search terms.

This feature enables web publishers to accompany a search query with a favicon, which, when mouse-overed, will expand into a banner (see an example on http://affiliates.quintura.com/). The banners can also be displayed as the first result on a separate search engine results page. The favicons and banners are added in the Banners section of the administration page at affiliate publisher’s online account.

To try new features, embed Quintura Site Search for your site via http://affiliates.quintura.com

When corporate web-sites of consumer good companies such as Solvay Pharma become media for their brands, Quintura helps Solvay to better interact with their site customers.

Solvay has selected to place its own images and banners next to popular search keywords and phrases in Quintura site search cloud. The images are hyperlinked to Solvay Pharma product mini-sites, allowing the company to better display product information and direct site search users to it.

The web master of Solvay Pharma site has a Quintura online account to control placing images into the Quintura cloud and access to up-to-date site search analytics.

Quintura provides hosted site search services to Solvay for a monthly subscription fee.

The implementation is the first one that has been made by Quintura for a corporate web-site. It shows a growing demand for Quintura site search, analytics & monetization solution from consumer good companies.

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