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Files under: News, Quintura Search, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 10:43 [17. 11. 09]
Our visual search engine for children Quintura Kids has been named among the Top 5 Search Engines for Kids by Pandia Search Engine News. The list of top 5 search engines for kids includes Ask Kids, Boolify, Quintura Kids, StudySearch and KidRex.
Per and Susanne Koch, editors of Pandia, said about Quintura Kids:
“..If these are not [...]
Files under: Mobile, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 03:58 [17. 11. 09]
One of the deans of venture capital, Morgenthaler Ventures has led a $10 million Series B round for electronic note application service Evernote, the company announced. Previous investors Troika Dialog and DOCOMO Capital, which invested a total of $6.5 million in Series A, also participated in the round. The investment will be used to expand [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 11:41 [13. 11. 09]
Our visual search engine Quintura has been named among the Best Search Engines for ESL/EFL Learners – 2009 by Websites of the Day blog. The list of the best search engines for English language learners includes EyePlorer, Study Search, Carrot2, Quintura, Boolify, Viewzi, Mel Zoo, and Middlespot.
Larry Ferlazzo, editor of Websites of the Day, said [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 15:49 [25. 05. 09]
PCWorld.com blogger Rick Broida has reviewed Quintura for Kids in his article “Keep Kids Safe Online: The Quintura Search Engine” on the blog: Hassle-Free PC.
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 [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 21:09 [17. 05. 09]
Google has introduced several new search options on its search engine including Wonder Wheel, a map to see related searches and refine searching. Quite a few bloggers already said that it is very similar to Quintura’s search cloud (or search map). What is also noticed that Google’s Wonder Wheel is missing images in the [...]
Files under: Inside View, News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 17:10 [24. 12. 08]
Discover Christmas and New Year holidays by browsing through our Search Cloud on www.quintura.com!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:25 [20. 12. 08]
In December 2007, Quintura was named the Alternative Search Engine of the Year 2007 by AltSearchEngines.com. Today, Charles Knight, the editor of AltSearchEngines, has named Quintura a Top 10 Alternative Search Engine of 2008.
Charles Knight explains:
“When you search with Quintura, you see a two-dimensional (i.e. not a list) tag cloud.
The other words in the [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 19:38 [9. 12. 08]
Today, we are announcing new tools and features of our hosted, visual-based site search and analytics solution, Quintura Site Search. The new features, which shall help online publishers to boost Click-Through-Rates (CTR) on both banners and search result links, include:
- Search Cloud Images: a new interface enables web publishers to embed images and banners [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 18:09 [2. 12. 08]
When some of the major Western venture capital funds are slowing down their investment activities, their Russian VC counterparts are going ahead with their investments. Troika Venture Fund, a new venture capital fund managed by Troika Capital Partners (part of the leading Russian investment banking group Troika Dialog) is completing three investment deals for a [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 12:18 [2. 12. 08]
In difficult economic times, we keep paying more attention to what is most important in our lives including our children. Our search engine for kids, Quintura Kids gets a new design for the winter season. We have also updated the site index and populated the initial Search Cloud on the site with graphics to make [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 01:00 [27. 11. 08]
We are getting news that Yahoo! BOSS has launched so called ‘vertical lens‘ for search across your site categories or group of your sites. We at Quintura have already implemented this on several publisher networks of web-sites. As a result, Quintura’s hosted site search significantly increases user engagement in search resulting in more page [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 14:26 [26. 11. 08]
The concept of online shopping clubs where members can buy designer brands at discount prices has got a real traction across Europe. First, it was vente-privee in France 2001. Then, came brands4friends.de in Germany in 2007 and KupiVIP.ru in Russia in 2008. Both were started with early-stage investments from Mangrove Capital Partners. In spite of [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 13:52 [7. 11. 08]
Having become a major visual-based site search engine for women-centric sites in Russia, Quintura reaches a multi-million online female audience, which represents a very attractive market for online advertisers from consumer goods and shopping companies.
After releasing new features this week to maximize user experience and search widget performance, we at Quintura have launched an [...]
Files under: News, Quintura Search, Search Cases, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 12:33 [6. 11. 08]
So far, more than 1,500 online publishers have registered to use Quintura‘s visual-based site search solution reaching a monthly audience of more than 10 million site visitors. The newly registered publishers include a leading cooking website in Russia, Gotovim Doma (Cook at Home) and consumer magazine site Women Secrets.
We at Quintura (www.affiliates.quintura.com) today announce [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 21:05 [31. 10. 08]
If you can’t monetize your online traffic yourself, then bring in a guy who could replicate a previous successful experience in it. When the leading Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki.ru recently hired a new CEO, the market was wondering what he would do first. In fact, the answer’s easy. Previously, he worked at online dating [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 14:52 [30. 10. 08]
Having acquired computer game publisher BUKA for $80 million last July, the largest Eastern European computer and video game publisher 1C Company obtained a 40% share of the Russian game publishing and distribution market valued at $400 million per year.
Today 1C Company announced it acquires Avalon Style Entertainment, a Russian game studio known for [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 00:58 [30. 10. 08]
It’s not often when a web startup drops its name, unless something important happens. The real estate search engine Properazzi has changed its name to Enormo, CEO Yannick Laclau announced on his blog. The new name “better reflects the mission of what we do“, Yannick wrote regarding the name change.
Founded in 2006, Enormo has compiled [...]
Files under: Enterprise, News, Quintura Search, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 22:05 [29. 10. 08]
Having become a major site search solution provider for women-centric websites in Russia, Quintura Site Search now reaches more than 5 million monthly site visitors in the country.
Quintura’s visual-based site search is being used by major online lifestyle sites such as Passion.ru, Cosmo.ru, LeLuxe, and Portal-Woman.ru. They will be soon joined by Ameno.ru, Bazaar.ru [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 17:36 [29. 10. 08]
Having escaped from Google’s acquisition, the leading Russian contextual advertising company Begun continues offering new ways to monetize multimedia online content. In June 2008, Begun launched video contextual advertisements via Begun.VideoContext that were first introduced on video sharing online community Rambler Vision. Now the company is launching a new monetization option for photo sharing websites [...]
Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Yakov @ 11:58 [27. 10. 08]
When it comes to online shopping in Russia, the venture capital investors are looking for proven business models and projects that can generate revenues from the very beginning. The largest Russian online shop Ozon.ru, which often called ‘Russian Amazon’, has raised $18 million from Index Ventures and the others. I recently suggested that [...]
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