Quintura: Visualization of the search engine

The Quintura search engine aims to change search as we know it by adding a visual component.  By completing a keyword search, the user is provided with two result windows.  The window on the left provides results that are retrieved from the Yahoo index.  The window on the right provides a cloud of keyword suggestions that can help the user better focus their search.  Roll over a suggested term and you'll see more terms pop up.  The results window will also automatically change to reflect the revised query.

I think that this would be an excellent change to the user interfaces we are so used to in today's information databases.  It would definitely make the information tools we provide our patrons much more user friendly.

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Searchboth.net is the first site to place google and yahoo side by side on one split screen. The web site takes the user's query and creates a browser window with two frames, with the results from Yahoo! on one side and those from google on the other. It has completely end up the hassles involved while searching different search engines at the same time.