Quintura offers mobile search apps for Android devices including recipe search app Q Cook, web and image search app Q Search and kids-friendly search app Q Kids.

From product description of Q Kids at Verizon Media Store:

“ Q Kids is a safe visual search engine designed specifically for children. Start teaching your children how to use the Internet, search for information and research the topic further.”

Quintura offers recipe search (Q Cook), web and image search (Q Search) and kids-friendly search (Q Kids) apps for Android devices as well as maternity search app Мой Малыш (My Baby) in Russian.

From product description of Q Cook at Vodafone 360 Shop:

“ Q Cook is Visual Search Engine for Recipes designed for Mobile Phones and Tablets. Tap a word in a search cloud to browse for recipes. We have indexed information from popular cooking web-sites. To begin search, tap a word in Quintura search cloud. To refine searching, tap another word to add it to your query. The cloud and search results will change.”

The leading Internet advertising company in Russia, Yandex has managed to outgrow the Russian internet advertising market that increased almost 40% last year. The contextual advertising accounted for 88% of Yandex revenues. The number of Yandex advertisers was up 40% year-on-year to over 180,000 in 2010.

Yandex increased its search market share to 64% in Russia, to 27% in Ukraine, and to 24% in Kazakhstan in December 2010, according to LiveInternet. Yandex‘ monthly audience reached 54 million users in November 2010, according to Comscore.

The highly anticipated Yandex IPO in 2011 could be valued at $1.5 billion.

Based on user feedback from more than 7,000 service registrations over the past two years, we improved web-site crawling and indexing, added new search display options and improved service user interface.

Being one of the major visual search engines, Quintura indexes a web-site and builds a search cloud of keywords and phrases related to the site.

The cloud is displayed as graphical user interface for searching and can be embedded to the site as a search widget.

See the widget in the left sidebar and create one at http://affiliates.quintura.com

One new option is that a publisher of several web-sites can create and manage site search for all its web-sites using single user account.

The holidays celebrated in Russia such as New Year, International Women’s Day, Valentine’s Day and the others made 9 out of top 20 searches in Russia last year. The Yandex top searches (Zeitgeist Russia) and their respective numbers in 2009 were as follows:

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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.

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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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