Parents' Guide to

Quintura for Kids

By Carla Thornton, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 6+

Unique search engine provides safe but inconsistent results.

Website http://www.quinturakids.com
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Jsivaches
Jsivaches Adult
November 18, 2015
age 2+

Give it up parents.

Alright; to all you parents out there trying to find a safe browser for kids: don't even bother. I will say this site works though (a little too well. I put it through my innapropriate meaning search test and it passed.) what I mean by too well is that next to nothing comes up for anything (I searched Lego. Just that word and nothing else; nothing came up.) just use google and explain to kids or tell them not to click on some things that might come up. If that's not safe enough check up on them or spend some time on the web with them. Use Parental controls if needed. Either way just give up this search and take my suggestions; these sites will either block anything remotely useful and entertaining or not block enough too be what they claim.
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What’s It About?

Quintura for Kids is a kid-safe version of Quintura, a little-known Russian search engine that's based on a neural network displayed as a fluid tag cloud. Instead of ranking results based on popularity, Quintura ranks them based on connections to the search term. Start off a search by typing words into a standard search box, then refine if desired by hovering the mouse over a word or phrase floating in the tag cloud - which in this case is a big, puffy cartoon cumulus. The tag is added to the search box and results are refreshed. At the same time the tag cloud generates a new batch of terms that branch off the selected word. As a result, users can view one set of search results after another without typing in another word. Quintura for Kids launched in 2006 based on site content from Yahoo Kids. Now sites are hand picked and periodically rechecked for safe content.

Is It Any Good?

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The dynamic tag cloud is an intuitive and potentially powerful tool most kids will love playing with. It often worked beautifully for me, letting me drill down to just the right nugget of information with a few sweeps of my mouse. However, just as often it produced strange word pairings or dead ends. For instance, when I typed in "stem cell research" and hovered the mouse over "society" I got nothing. Typing these same words into Ask for Kids or Yahoo Kids gave me dozens of sites that might help me write a paper. Content in general seems limited. Some common topics like the "Bronte sisters" produced no results. Similarly, it's hard to get basic information out of Quintura that other sites excel at, such as converting miles to feet. Quintura deserves credit for its mind-expanding search technology and serving up loads of safe content on popular topics like music and TV, but other search engines are more practical.

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Website Details

  • Genre: Educational
  • Pricing structure: Free
  • Last updated: November 5, 2015

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