GeekDad praised the features of a search engine for children



    Following the recognition of Quintura Kids as a “must have” app for younger students, Chris Hinton published a review of GeekDad tries Quintura's explorative search in the GeekDad section of the famous Wired.com . Further translation: Search engines have existed for many years, and it is necessary to do something special in order to give them newness again. Quintura proposed an interesting search approach when a search engine offers a set of interconnected words and phrases that can be added to a query for further refinement on the initial search query. Quintura recently released the Quintura Kids app ( Quintura Kids






    ) for iPhone and iPad, where the same web search interface is already used for specially selected sites on children's subjects, eliminating any danger to young minds.

    Quintura Children is designed for children aged 6-10 years who can already read on their own. I suppose this is due to the fact that the Internet mainly operates with text content, but I can’t say how much this is consistent with the statement that Quintura Children’s search is “visual”. Nonetheless, a visual approach to search is fully accessible to children who are inclined to learn new things.

    For example, if you enter the query “cats”, a lot of qualifying words will appear on the card of prompts, one of which is the word “pictures”. Add it with one click, and you will get a lot of varieties (for example, I’ve never heard of “Abyssinians” before), as well as search results pages that reveal the entered query.

    A safe index bypasses well all dubious network resources, although there is a drawback: when manually selecting sites, the index is very narrow. For example, I was looking for "Formula 1" - it was expected that the young man might be interested in auto racing - and I did not get any results. Although there is a "NASCAR" in the index. Perhaps the compilers of the index are more fans of nascar than racing Formula 1.

    I was also a bit surprised at how Quintura Kids look like an adult. Since my own children are still quite small, I know that there are not many ways to attract the attention of young children - they can only be shown large and bright pictures. Even my 6 year old would prefer a more colorful environment.

    Be that as it may, the Quintura search idea is pretty good - you type in a general search query and then refine it gradually. And in combination with the iPhone interface, the Quintura Kids application in my opinion works very well. At least, as far as I watched the application, it never produced any dubious results. The only return results are a bit limited. But I hope that as the search index replenishes, the choice of results will become richer.


    Well, you should be honest with your applications and their users and acknowledge that the Quintura Kids application (and its Russian counterpart) really does not have enough colorful pictures, such as the Quintura search engine for Children offers . In the next versions of the application, pictures, animations, and other “gingerbreads” that children love so much will gradually appear. In general, you must admit that the child’s search engine first of all requires good search results so that parents are confident and calm about the kids.

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