The Search engine Quintura has raised several millions US dollars. Quintura is based on what they call “natural associative search principles”. The result is a truly innovative search engine interface. When you do a search on Quintura the left half of the browser window is filled with a tag cloud of terms. Your search term is at the center of the cloud surrounded by related terms that can help you narrow your query.

With a funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, they plan to use the capital to scale the Quintura affiliate model for site search and build a semantic web index using their neural networking techniques. Quintura now also plans to start selling graphical advertisements such as images, logos, and icons within the Quintura search cloud.

As reported on Pandia, the company will launch an affiliate program and add tag cloud advertising. Quintura the visual search engine“Since our first meeting in spring 2006, we have really enjoyed working with the team of Mangrove Capital on our challenge to beat Google. We came to a mutual decision on raising new funding entirely from Mangrove.” said Yakov Sadchikov, co-founder and CEO of Quintura.

It will also offer an affiliate model for web-sites and blogs to replace a site map with a Quintura interactive cloud for site search and navigation.

The web-site publisher can index the site content and display the Quintura cloud on its site. The affiliate model will be either free/ads-supported or subscription-based.