Yesterday afternoon I received an email for Moscow’s Quintura which calls itself a ‘web discovery engine’. Quintura’s a mix between a tag cloud and a search engine; allowing users to find related search terms to ones they input.
For example, if I search for “web 2.0″ I get ‘expo’, ‘conference’ and ‘blogging’ amongst others.
Quintura seems to be fairly fast despite that it’s heavy on Ajax. Many sites which utilise Ajax, such as Gmail, can be resource hogs but Quintura doesn’t seem to be one.
The site has web, image, video, Blinx and Amazon search. The first three are powered through Yahoo! . I have to admit that I’d much rather they used Google but to be honest the site is still very interesting.
The uses of the site are minimal but they allow you to discover new topics related to the one you’re searching for.
Quintura has received VC funding from Mangrove Capital (who ironically have a very Web 1.0 design: complete with frames and start page), the same company who funded Skype.
Unfortunately, the site uses the US Amazon, which I find is slightly strange for a Russian company. This is another company focusing the American audience over the international one.
Tags: russia, moscow, web 2.0, web2.0, web 2, web2, ajax, search
Joe, I greatly appreciate your review. Quintura also has kids’ version Quintura Kids at http://kids.quintura.com BTW, more than a half of http://www.quintura.com users are from the U.S. who use it to find Amazon products.
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