While Ask is copying Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo with its AskCities, Quintura has something that’s far more worthy of a Digg or TechMeme-style overhyping. It’s visual search and I saw it at the Firefox party in London last Friday, just like Ewan McIntosh did, and it’s pretty damn cool.
What does it do? You search on something, say “Amsterdam” and it presents a tag-cloud, built with Flash, that shows you other possibilities around that query.
Yakov Sadchikov, founder, told me that Quintura has gotten popular among SEO types because it shows you keywords that other methods don’t show you. I’ve played with it a bit and it sure is an interesting new way to search.
i think its just a java script tag cloud and not flash. pretty cool though.
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i think its just a java script tag cloud and not flash. pretty cool though.
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Rob, you’re truly a tech evangelist. I’d like to leave this comment and link from a BBC blog: “If visually ordered interfaces prove to make searching more efficient, then Quintura may be the template for what search engines look like in the future” http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20/2006/11/visual_search_the_next_big_thi.shtml
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Rob, you’re truly a tech evangelist. I’d like to leave this comment and link from a BBC blog: “If visually ordered interfaces prove to make searching more efficient, then Quintura may be the template for what search engines look like in the future” http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20/2006/11/visual_search_the_next_big_thi.shtml
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It looks similar to Grokker to me. There’s a library-ish visual search interface around, too, called Aquabrowser (see it here – http://www.medialab.nl/index.asp?page=aquabrowserlibrary/howitworks).
Nonetheless, the hovering over the tag and having the search change is pretty cool!
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It looks similar to Grokker to me. There’s a library-ish visual search interface around, too, called Aquabrowser (see it here – http://www.medialab.nl/index.asp?page=aquabrowserlibrary/howitworks).
Nonetheless, the hovering over the tag and having the search change is pretty cool!
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There’s now a brilliant Quintura for Kids, which I reckon fills in an as yet untapped group:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/12/quintura_for_ki.html
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There’s now a brilliant Quintura for Kids, which I reckon fills in an as yet untapped group:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/12/quintura_for_ki.html
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