We are accustomed to the Opera browser's plug-in widgets, we get used to the Windows Vista utility widgets.
Quintura offers not just a bauble, but a useful web application for a website / blog. So, meet: the first web widget of the Runet. Visual and easy to install, like a Flash-video, on the main page of
Habrahabr .
Forecasts for 2007 promised a huge increase in the popularity of various widgets. Doubters can go
here or search for materials on this topic on
their own .
The predictions came true. According to
comScore, in November 2007, nearly 148 million (81%) of Internet users in the US viewed widgets. Runet, obviously, has its own destiny. Russia is not ahead of the rest, and for us the year of 2008 can be the year of widgets. Self-respecting web services, such as Mail.ru, Toodoo, NTV, have already acquired small web widgets and offer them to their users.
Quintura aims to be at the forefront and offers two types of web widgets. This is a small Internet search engine that can be easily embedded on your page and surf the Internet in search of interesting and convenient search engine on your own website or blog. A week ago, Habr's readers could already try the JavaScript version of the widget. Now, on the site of the familiar banner on the main page of HabraHabr (friends, if you forbade your browser to show you banners, then you can remove the ban for a couple of minutes) there is a real working search widget on Habrahabr. By the way, Habrahabr fans can promote this wonderful collective blog by installing the widget code on their site to search for Habr.