Quintura has an interesting new look at search
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.
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December 4th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
i think its just a java script tag cloud and not flash. pretty cool though.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
[...] Y más allá de que no sea totalmente práctico para leer información, me parece muy buena como experimento de visualización de información… y además, con lo de 2.0 a veces se aplauden cada cosas ;) [...]
December 5th, 2006 at 6:04 am
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
December 5th, 2006 at 7:57 am
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!
December 5th, 2006 at 8:40 am
[...] I just discovered Quintura, a new visual search engine interface (found via Robert Scoble’s blog). On the surface, it looks similar to Grokker or KartOO (two other better-known visual search engines). [...]
December 6th, 2006 at 4:27 am
[...] That man in constant motion Robert Scoble points to Quintura, an intriguing search engine based on refining your search through a tag cloud. [...]
December 24th, 2006 at 5:27 am
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