{"id":570119,"date":"2010-05-19T06:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-19:article\/419-russias-quintura-raises-1-million-for-mobile-visual-search"},"modified":"2010-05-19T06:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:20:44","slug":"russias-quintura-raises-1-million-for-mobile-visual-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570119","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s Quintura Raises $1 Million For Mobile Visual Search"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian visual search vendor Quintura<\/a> says it’s raised $1 million to make in-roads in to mobile search. Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov didn’t disclose the investor’s identity.<\/p>\n

Why the money? “We are going to shortly launch Quintura search apps for mobiles (iPhone\/iPad, Nokia\/Symbian, HTC\/Windows Mobile, HTC\/Android, etc.) as well as turn our existing search services such as search for kids, hosted site search, etc. into paid search,” Sadchikov said.\n<\/p>\n

The company raised first-round money, reported<\/a> to be $5 million, from Mangrove in 2007, before later bridge funding in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quintura has been operating a visual search engine interface, which shows results in a relational, contextual cloud format, since 2005 and was last year awarded the latest of eight U.S. patents.<\/p>\n

Last May, Google (NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>) introduced its own little-used visual search interface, Wonder Whee<\/a>l, tucked away in its search options, that offers similar functionality, and, prior to announcing the funding, Quintura made a show of claiming patent infringement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When it comes to mobile search, Google is keener on using mobile sensors as search input than displaying search results on mobiles diagrammatically.<\/p>\n

Quintura operates its existing search facility at its own quintura.com, but the site is mainly a shop window for the technology. The company\u2019s business is to white-label visual site search to publishers – it\u2019s currently being used by over 5,000, ranging from individual bloggers to Axel Springer\u2019s Russian magazine sites and Komputerra Publishing House.<\/p>\n

Most Quintura sales are at home in Russia; the company has U.S. office in Virginia, but it scaled back there last year as the recession reduced publisher demand for the service.\n<\/p>\n

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Russian visual search vendor Quintura says it’s raised $1 million to make in-roads in to mobile search. Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov didn’t disclose the investor’s identity. Why the money? “We are going to shortly launch Quintura search apps for mobiles (iPhone\/iPad, Nokia\/Symbian, HTC\/Windows Mobile, HTC\/Android, etc.) as well as turn our existing search services such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}