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Quintura - visual search client
by Jason Clarke Jan 20th 2006 at 7:00AM
Quintura is another attempt at a visual
search engine. It is quite polished and well designed, and affords basic searchers the ability to refine their search
results in a visual way. Simply put, Quintura surrounds the words from the original query with words that have been
determined to be likely to be associated. hovering over a related word shows the search query narrowed down with this
extra search term. The interactivity is fun to play with and the presentation is beautiful. It can be a bit of a
processor hog though, and honestly although it claims to speed up your searching, nothing is quicker for me than
submitting a Google query. If you have trouble generating effective search queries, this tool might be of great use to
you.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Here we go said 10:28AM on 2-25-2006
This seems fun, but it's a pitty that it needs a standalone program and only runs on Windows :-(
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