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December 05, 2007

Quintura: Alternative Search Engine of the Year

Over on the AltSearchEngines blog, Quintura has emerged as the winner of the The Alternative Search Engine of the Year - 2007 contest.

All the finalists are excellent search engines, so it must have been a tough call - as Charles readily admits. Regardless, I think it's a great choice, and a well-deserved honor for Quintura.

I've mentioned Quintura before on this blog ; the company offers some interesting and innovative technology. In addition to regular search results, one of their special features is a dynamic tag cloud, that allows the user to navigate visually through the search results space - as the user selects specific tags, the cloud automatically re-orients itself to highlight related concepts.

A mini tag cloud for this blog, powered by Quintura, is displayed below - you can play with it yourself to see how it works. Is it an intuitive way to surf through search results? Let us know in the comments.  A full-size Quintura cloud for this blog is also available on a separate page.





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Great, Nitin! We have implemented a Quintura search cloud on your blog! Looking forward to hearing any feedback on how we can make it better.

Great post. Some excellent ideas that we could start working with to make our corp blog community-friendly.

Quintura is a search engine based on a visual search engine technology and makes use of Yahoo’s index.

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