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Quintura is a visual search engine technology that makes use of Yahoo’s index. It presents search results in an interface that is truly different. Your search term is at the center of a ’search cloud’ surrounded by related terms that can help you narrow your query. Now this interface is available in i special version for kids.

Quintura for kids has a pretty, playful start page: A winter landscape where the trees have holiday lights on and someone has made a snow man with top hat and a carrot nose We like it!

When you arrive, a cloud of suggested search terms is already hovering over the search box: Christmas, school, sports and more. Just pointing your mouse at one of the terms changes the picture — your chosen term gets a search cloud of its own and search results pop up below. If you like what you see, you click the word and the search is performed. If not, just point your mouse at another word and keep on searching.

There are also thematic searches ready and waiting. Symbols are scattered in the landscape — a dog, a Game Boy, a guitar, a TV and a test tube — representing searches for animals, games, music, TV and science. Clicking on one of these symbols brings out new clouds for you to explore.

Of course, you can also type your own query into the search box and click Find. You get a list of search results and he same kind of search cloud as for the pre-defined searches, to help you refine your search.

Quintura for Kids searches the Yahoo! Kids index. This ensures that the search results are suitable for children. All our test searches return child-friendly results: A search for yoga produced a list of yoga sites for kids and a search for science lists resources for science fair projects, among other things. And even when searching for terms that could return some pretty naughty results, all we got were the mating habits of tree frogs andsimilarly innocent sites.

Quintura is planning Quintura for Women next. Being a woman myself, I am pretty certain web searching women don’t require the same kind of assistance that children do. And the women I know are such a diverse crowd that designing a search engine to fit their needs will certainly be a challenge. It will be interesting to see what the team at Quintura comes up with.

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