February 27, 2007 - Bringing the future of search into today's web, Quintura, a next-generation search startup backed by early Skype investors, today announced the launch of its reengineered visual search at www.Quintura.com. The new Quintura provides web users with a whole new perspective to Internet searches. The web application was first demonstrated to the attendees of the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) event in London on February 20 - 21, 2007.

Quintura is the first search engine that helps visually find web pages, images, and video content. The new search experience is based on See & Find™ concept where users can see and refine their searches within an interactive tag cloud and instantly find relevant information.

Quintura offers an intuitive way to refine and narrow a search. The innovative graphical user interface of Quintura presents search results in two panes - the left pane contains a preset interactive tag cloud and the right pane lists search results. The intuitive nature of the cloud allows web users to refine their search by clicking on tags that appear in the cloud. Holding a mouse cursor over a tag in the cloud causes new, related tags to appear surrounding an original tag and search results to change in the scrollable right pane. Clicking a tag in the cloud the web users can easily refine a search and navigate through visual clusters of search results.

Quintura is the first to display graphical images (favorite icons) next to tags (search terms) in the tag cloud. The icon is associated with a URL that corresponds to a search term. Clicking the icon users can visit web pages right from the tag cloud making Quintura easy to use for simple search queries.

"We approached the problem of finding Internet-based information from the standpoint of the user" said Yakov Sadchikov, co-founder and CEO of Quintura. "Using the advanced neural networking techniques, we strive to bring web users a new search experience that is visual and intuitive. Instead of clicking through numerous links of search results, web users can now find exactly what they are looking for with one or two clicks on tags or icons in the Quintura cloud. In the near future, Internet advertisers will be able to utilize icons and other graphics in the Quintura cloud for their contextual advertising campaigns."

Try it out for yourself at www.quintura.com to experience the new Quintura.

Quintura also operates Quintura for Kids - a visual search designed specifically for children at Kids.quintura.com

About Quintura

Quintura, Inc. is a US corporation with offices in Alexandria , Virginia , and software development operations in the Moscow region of Russia . Quintura is backed by Mangrove Capital, the first VC investors in Skype. The Quintura technology is based on over decade of scientific research in semantic neural nets and advanced mathematics. Quintura plans to offer an affiliate program where blog and web-site publishers can create and display the Quintura clouds for navigation and web search.

For more information, please visit www.quintura.com