Comments on: Quintura Gets Series A From Mangrove Capital Partners http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/ Startup and Technology News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:11 -0800 hourly 1 By: reg cure, reg cure review http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1945066 reg cure, reg cure review Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1945066 <strong>reg cure review...</strong> reg cure, reg cure review... reg cure review…

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]]> By: Ravi Bhushan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1442345 Ravi Bhushan Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:15:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1442345 It works now :) Noq quite sure what the problem was. But if I wasnt persistent, I wouldnt come back to the site. It works now :) Noq quite sure what the problem was. But if I wasnt persistent, I wouldnt come back to the site.

]]> By: Ravi Bhushan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1442325 Ravi Bhushan Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1442325 Is the site down or is the search engine plain useless? My search for enterprise mashups isnt giving me any results! Any comments from the people at Quintura? Is the site down or is the search engine plain useless? My search for enterprise mashups isnt giving me any results! Any comments from the people at Quintura?

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1441914 David Mackey Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:11:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1441914 Always like hearing about new search engines...Saw this mentioned in a ZDNet email as well. Always like hearing about new search engines…Saw this mentioned in a ZDNet email as well.

]]> By: Yakov http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1441346 Yakov Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:01:22 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1441346 Answering your question, Quintura uses its own proprietary neural networking technology. BTW, Quintura was also covered today by ZDNet: Life without Google series at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5397 and PC World: 25 web sites to watch at http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132787-page,6-c,sites/article.html Answering your question, Quintura uses its own proprietary neural networking technology. BTW, Quintura was also covered today by ZDNet: Life without Google series at http://blogs.zd...com/BTL/?p=5397
and PC World: 25 web sites to watch at http://www.pcwo...es/article.html

]]> By: Alex Barnett http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1441275 Alex Barnett Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:33:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1441275 David Armstrong, et al, Seems like Quintura is a mix of three things: 1. Yahoo, Blinkx and Amazon search index and algorithms, ported through their api's, 2. licensed Brain or digital thesaurus type visualization tool, 3. some sort of licensed thesaurus semantic map to group single tags with their surrounding tags. The last one doesn't work very well at all. And the combo of the other two produces very random results. It is fun playing with the moving words, and watching the search results as I browsed, but I didn't have the urge to click on a single thing because it was all so random, and in video, all things like CNN (I already know how to go to CNN and get today's news, thanks). I don't understand who would give them millions for this. It's all licensed and all they've done is make an interface that is a curiosity at best. David Armstrong, et al,

Seems like Quintura is a mix of three things: 1. Yahoo, Blinkx and Amazon search index and algorithms, ported through their api’s, 2. licensed Brain or digital thesaurus type visualization tool, 3. some sort of licensed thesaurus semantic map to group single tags with their surrounding tags.

The last one doesn’t work very well at all. And the combo of the other two produces very random results. It is fun playing with the moving words, and watching the search results as I browsed, but I didn’t have the urge to click on a single thing because it was all so random, and in video, all things like CNN (I already know how to go to CNN and get today’s news, thanks).

I don’t understand who would give them millions for this. It’s all licensed and all they’ve done is make an interface that is a curiosity at best.

]]> By: Ken Smith http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1441113 Ken Smith Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:27:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1441113 Interesting idea -- so-so execution. The most prominent link that showed up after doing a search on "Excel 2007 performance" was "European Cars". Their algorithms still need a bit of work. I agree with other posters that there isn't any real chance of beating Google here. But that's not the point. People forget that Google doesn't build most of their own stuff: they buy other small companies that have already built it. The real exit here for Quintura is if they can interest Google/MS/Yahoo in their technology enough to acquire them. That said, I'm guessing that Quintura here mostly has a conceptual innovation, not a strong set of technology, and hence open to copying; and unless they've got better ideas in the pipeline, it's always going to remain niche, not mainstream. Interesting idea — so-so execution. The most prominent link that showed up after doing a search on “Excel 2007 performance” was “European Cars”. Their algorithms still need a bit of work.

I agree with other posters that there isn’t any real chance of beating Google here. But that’s not the point. People forget that Google doesn’t build most of their own stuff: they buy other small companies that have already built it. The real exit here for Quintura is if they can interest Google/MS/Yahoo in their technology enough to acquire them.

That said, I’m guessing that Quintura here mostly has a conceptual innovation, not a strong set of technology, and hence open to copying; and unless they’ve got better ideas in the pipeline, it’s always going to remain niche, not mainstream.

]]> By: Posititive views http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440846 Posititive views Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:25:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440846 Google is still undefeated search engine. Other search companies such as ASK, MSN Live, Yahoo, Mahalo, mylivesearch, etc... Can't beat it... They spend millions and millions dollar. None of highly educated employees can get jobs done. They fear competitors copy... If powerset.com have those cool innovation. I'll bet you Google or MS have or Yahoo power to copy anything and write different source code. For example, Who invented search map? -- Google maps, Yahoo maps, MSN maps. I would give advice to Quintura. Don't try to show off too much. You end up getting copied. It hurts when companies copy stuff from your works. Google is still undefeated search engine.

Other search companies such as ASK, MSN Live, Yahoo, Mahalo, mylivesearch, etc… Can’t beat it… They spend millions and millions dollar. None of highly educated employees can get jobs done. They fear competitors copy… If powerset.com have those cool innovation. I’ll bet you Google or MS have or Yahoo power to copy anything and write different source code. For example, Who invented search map? — Google maps, Yahoo maps, MSN maps.

I would give advice to Quintura. Don’t try to show off too much. You end up getting copied. It hurts when companies copy stuff from your works.

]]> By: Rage http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440649 Rage Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:52:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440649 The semantic web is finally growing. The semantic web is finally growing.

]]> By: David Armstrong http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440400 David Armstrong Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:05:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440400 oops....Too bad Quintura is NOT an open API..remote access to their service might be valuable. oops….Too bad Quintura is NOT an open API..remote access to their service might be valuable.

]]> By: David Armstrong http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440382 David Armstrong Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:56:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440382 Jason..competing with google/yahoo is a bad investment..partnering with them..good investment. A search gadget that looks at multiple search engines..google/yahoo being two of them. Too bad Quintura (sp?) is an open API. http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=http://gadgets.bouncebase.com/bounce-remote.xml&source=imag Jason..competing with google/yahoo is a bad investment..partnering with them..good investment. A search gadget that looks at multiple search engines..google/yahoo being two of them. Too bad Quintura (sp?) is an open API.

http://www.goog...amp;source=imag

]]> By: Tim http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440333 Tim Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:36:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440333 If i navigate through those suggestions, then my eyes don`t wanna move to the "real results" on the right sidebar, they are stuck on those cloud movements. Maybe it`s just for me .. :D If i navigate through those suggestions, then my eyes don`t wanna move to the “real results” on the right sidebar, they are stuck on those cloud movements.

Maybe it`s just for me .. :D

]]> By: anonymouse http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440316 anonymouse Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:27:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440316 wow, yet another "web 2.0 search engine" that just doesn't get search. oh well, what's a few million down the drain? wow, yet another “web 2.0 search engine” that just doesn’t get search. oh well, what’s a few million down the drain?

]]> By: Startup Booster Blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440269 Startup Booster Blog Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:08:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440269 Jason, I agree with your point. I am not sure if I have the time to spend on a visual search engine. -GD Jason, I agree with your point. I am not sure if I have the time to spend on a visual search engine.

-GD

]]> By: Concrete Stain http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440257 Concrete Stain Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:02:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440257 there are so many better search engines... than this .. the name is too long and un - rememberable - - Google still wins there are so many better search engines… than this ..

the name is too long and un – rememberable –

– Google still wins

]]> By: David http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440245 David Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:53:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440245 Read this Article: http://whitesmoke.com/english-writing-software-hits-a-new-stride.html Read this Article:

http://whitesmo...new-stride.html

]]> By: SEARCH ENGINES WEB * http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440055 SEARCH ENGINES WEB * Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:36:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440055 Quintura is an interesting concept, but as one would expect - the major search engines are constantly on the look out for innovative strategies - and will incorporate them in their algos. So Google is now adding search suggestions at the bottom of their SERPs if they feel they queries are overly common Yahoo has been doing this for quite some time. It is just Quintera's layout that is the major difference. BTW: on another note: TECHCRUNCH has just been permanently linked to from Google's latest blog (Public Policy Blog) this is a rarity because they usually only link to Google-oriented blogs. <b> http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/ </b> Quintura is an interesting concept, but as one would expect – the major search engines are constantly on the look out for innovative strategies – and will incorporate them in their algos.

So Google is now adding search suggestions at the bottom of their SERPs if they feel they queries are overly common

Yahoo has been doing this for quite some time.

It is just Quintera’s layout that is the major difference.

BTW:

on another note:

TECHCRUNCH has just been permanently linked to from Google’s latest blog (Public Policy Blog) this is a rarity because they usually only link to Google-oriented blogs.

http://googlepu...y.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Jason Alba http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-1440037 Jason Alba Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:30:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/18/quintura-gets-series-a-from-mangrove-capital-partners/#comment-1440037 I wonder how many people seriously use these types of search engines regularly? Is Google's demise so apparent that there's a ton of room in this space, and this is really a good investment? I only ask because I have no experience using these alternatives *regularly* and don't know anyone that doesn't use either Google or Yahoo for searching. Jason Alba CEO - <a href="http://www.JibberJobber.com" rel="nofollow">JibberJobber.com</a> Self-Serve Career Management I wonder how many people seriously use these types of search engines regularly? Is Google’s demise so apparent that there’s a ton of room in this space, and this is really a good investment? I only ask because I have no experience using these alternatives *regularly* and don’t know anyone that doesn’t use either Google or Yahoo for searching.

Jason Alba
CEO – JibberJobber.com
Self-Serve Career Management

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