The kid-friendly search engine Quintura Kids just got a new design! Go check it out on www.kids.quintura.com Quintura Kids is mostly used in the elementary schools and public libraries in the U.S. Several hundred school and teacher websites have linked to the site since its launch in March 2007.
The search engine can be easily embedded onto any web or blog page by clicking the Embed it! link in the top-right corner of the screen and copying & pasting an embed code onto the page.
In June 2007, Quintura Kids was ranked the highest among the kid-friendly search engines by Search Engine Watch. The search engines for kids were ranked in five categories including a visual appeal to a child; relevance to a child, based on chosen searches; commercial vs. educational, with the educational slant creating a higher score; and ease of navigation for 7-10 year olds.
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April 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I kind of see this as a loosing proposition and I can’t figure out why Quintura would voluntarily enter this segment.
It will be a herculean effort to keep any — and I mean any — questionable content out of the results — while not severely reducing the quality of the search experience.
Even then, all it takes is one incident where a teacher is using this in front of a classrom and something pornographic surfaces…bam… that was the sound of “Quintura Kids” loosing credibility it had… as the news spreads amongst teachers…parents…etc
I just don’t see that much upside, and a huge downside.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Quintura’s visual-based search is very appealing to children’s audience. It’s proved by the fact that the site is regularly being used in schools as well as by highly-rated the industry experts. As far as the search results are concerned, they were manually checked for safety. No worry
April 16th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I have to agree a Kids friendly search engine would be great!
I think it would be really difficult to keep all the “crap” and “filth” out of it though…
On the other hand…if they find a way to do this…then maybe they can relay this too Yahoo, Google and all the other SE’s..
LOL