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Quintura has brought tag clouds to the search engine space. At first glance Quintura looks like an other 2nd tier engine, trying to sneak up on Google, but as I used the site it seemed to have a useful purpose. Quintura uses tag clouds to help visitors define what they are looking for. Once a visitor enters a query, Quintura will show typical search results on the right-hand side of the browser, but they then show a related tag cloud on the left. The tag cloud is used to help people refine their search by identifying and clicking on keywords that they may not have necessarily thought of. What I like about the cloud is that when trying to refine my search, all I had to do was mouse-over a keyword, and the results on the right side of the page would change. This made refining much easier. Searchers will also get more keywords, based on the keyword that is activated within the tag cloud. They can also remove keywords from the cloud if the words are not relevant. Overall the results were above average, and the tag made searching a lot faster.

In a world of Ajax and the Social Web, I expected Quintura to have a lot of useless social features such as a profile page, and other random things that distract people from searching. Fortunately, Quintura focused on the search, and not the extras. It is a nice change. With that said, people can still save their results the old-fashioned way to their favorites, and also send them to a friend via their default e-mail client. Crazy but it works.

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Last Modified : March 13th, 2007
Filed under : Uncategorized, New Search Engines
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