Tag: QUINTURA

I'm not a fan of software patents, and I'm particularly not a fan of companies who use them as a business model. While the concept of patenting software makes sense, in practice it is a complete mess. I was therefore saddened to learn that Quintura, an otherwise interesting search startup, has devolved into using a patent for their visual search technology as a revenue stream by going after other ...

Learning to search the web can be frustrating for children. One simple spelling mistake is all it takes to make a search query useless. Plus, most search engines don't help the user find related information, so they cannot quickly and easily hone their search to find exactly what they're looking for. Quintura is a search engine that we have discussed previously here, and here. Most recently, ...

We first reported on visual search client Quintura back in January, and although we were impressed with the polish and design of the application, we had two reservations about it. Firstly, it was a standalone application to perform web searching, which felt counter-intuitive, and although it's designed to give users a visual interface to more quickly compose search queries, it was simply too ...

Quintura is another attempt at a visual search engine. It is quite polished and well designed, and affords basic searchers the ability to refine their search results in a visual way. Simply put, Quintura surrounds the words from the original query with words that have been determined to be likely to be associated. hovering over a related word shows the search query narrowed down with this extra ...