Quintura, a site where you can search the internet with the assistance of a keyword cloud, is releasing a widget that brings the same search cloud to individual websites.
Site owners can install the widget (shown below) and the search results will come only from their sites, or from a network of sites if they so choose. Search advertisements will show up in the cloud, and proceeds from click-throughs to those advertisements will be split with site owners.
If you’re interested in trying it out on your site, you can sign up here and Quintura will begin indexing your site and/or RSS feed. The cloud is customizable and so easily embeddable that visitors to your site will have the opportunity to embed the cloud for your site on their own.
As you can see below, the widget’s struggling a bit to search TechCrunch very effectively. It seems to generate a lot of results for tag pages, not actual articles, which isn’t terribly helpful. In my testing, the widget also loads only partially sometimes, which prevents the results themselves from actually showing.
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It seems that there should be some sort of affiliate pyramid scheme for getting your site visitors to embed it. But they don’t seem to have that.
Other criticism:
-the tag cloud and widget in general, visually sucks
-when you customize your own, it’s confusing what tags are meant to show in the cloud based on what you choose for the forms “cloud from site” and “type your query.” Ultimately, it shows tags from both. I just think it could be better laid out and explained.
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If you embed a Flash widget, the Quintura search cloud will load much faster. We are looking forward for receiving feedback from TechCrunch readers.
1) I cant see ANY cloud…
2) HOW DO i REGISTER? it asks for an Invitation Key….
Nice widget.
The motion is a little strange and also the behavior but it is ok. Keep up the good work.
please click Get invitation key on http://affiliates.quintura.com.....ewuser.asp
and submit your email address to get key by email
The cloud is a good idea, but i think you could embed more info in the cloud itself. Also, i would agree the visuals need tweaking. Finally, it doesn’t seem to work when you click on one of the branches. Using FF 2.0.0.10.
What the f*** is this service for? Are people getting so bored or blocked to find new ideas for the web?
Sometimes I ask myself how Techcrunch people really choose the topics they want to review.
Why would someone review a stupid function from quitura while there are plenty of much better websites out there, and I’m pretty sure they are getting into your inbox so you don’t really need to fetch.
Agree with James Gillmore but I’d go further: Tags clouds are in 95% of the cases confusing and mindless. A tool to promote what should be eradicated is a big step backward. Don’t believe the hype.
quintura might not be afraid of google, but after this display i seriously doubt google is afraid of quintura. this type of search feature seems useless and his little to none monetary value. what’s the value proposition? searching is supposed to help you find things, not confuse you even more.
Using tag clougs and, specifically, Quintura dynamic tag cloud for site navigation can increase number page views and bring in more revenues to site publisher
If you organize your categories as keywords and use a category cloud plugin (available for all major blog platforms) you don’t need this thing. You’ll get the keyword love and the category clouds look integral to your site unlike this widget. The problem is that many bloggers don’t use categories as tagged keywords properly.
When they first launched their search engine interface I found its usability to be poorly thought out. It was not intuitive to get to the actual end result as the mapping kept growing rather than providing a useful results page. It looks as though this gizmo is suffering from the same design flaws. If you want non-techies to use it, make it work perfectly and simply.
Must be something wrong with the cloud generation because there certainly is not a word used more often on FaceCrunch … errrr TechCrunch than Facebook.
Eye-opening, though more like a fuzzy nebula of confusions than a tag cloud… ;-(
Why is this here?
Qunitura is only relevant (and only- Just) in russia. (yandex still has way more users)
As far as being a ‘google’ killer and being ’semantic’ - As long as you still rely on pulling from google or yahoos API to get initial results, any filtering you do afterwards is BS. After all the hooplah, the search is less accurate even on TC than the spammy eurekster.
How is this different from Eurekster’s swicki??
I like it the service.
But bad thing is, they send the users password in plain text when you register . I was lucky not to use my regular passwords.
All, Don’t user your regular passwords to register
Cheers, Nag
You can always customize a search cloud on your site as well as its tags. Please get in touch with Quintura affiliate support team. We plan to offer an ad server to monetize keywords in the cloud. As a next step, a search widget will become a monetization vehicle, a much better one than Google ads on your site
I’d like to leave some love for Quintura here. Having read about the service the service on Techcrunch I’m now testing it on one of my sites.
I agree with much of the feedback that the design elements need improvement but it seems a powerful alternative mechanism for browsing a single site…
(I’ve tried Eurekster but it was nothing like as good at indexing a single site)