There has been a bit of discussion recently about how content farms (websites that use low-cost labor to churn out pages of little or mediocre quality) are polluting the results on the major search engines. Blekko, a new search engine that enables users to slash the web, has been among those leading the charge by […]

[Read more →]

Alexia Tsotsis at TechCrunch has posted an article about the new “Fully Dynamic” search being offered by Surf Canyon. As users know, Surf Canyon has been making search dynamic for some time. Recently, however, with the launch of Instant, Google has also started to make search dynamic. As explained by Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf […]

[Read more →]

Our last release, v3.0.5, was at the end of March, so it’s been a while since we put out a new version. We’re pleased to announce that v3.0.6 went out on June 30th and contains real-time featured results as well as support for Firefox’s private browsing mode.

[Read more →]

On July 13th, Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, will join Eli Goodman, comScore Search Evangelist, for a webinar discussion on the future of search and real-time personalization. To get an idea of the format, comScore offers a library of previous webinars. Here is a copy of the webinar invitation that comScore sent out this […]

[Read more →]

Back in June of 2008 Surf Canyon‘s browser extension was first listed by Mozilla as a “recommended” add-on. Yesterday we received similar treatment from the folks at Google Chrome who have added Surf Canyon to their list of “featured” extensions. We are thrilled and honored by the recognition!

[Read more →]

Real-time Search Personalization Tops Google, Yahoo! and Bing OAKLAND, CALIF. March 9, 2010 – Surf Canyon, the popular developer of real-time search personalization, was selected by the About Web Search 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards as the “Best Search Engine.” The competition included the major search engines in additional to a number of start-ups. Since April […]

[Read more →]

About.com has posted the winners of their 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards and we’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon won in the category of Best Search Engine. In their own words, “The race for the Best Search Engine was intriguing, with a relatively unknown newcomer, Surf Canyon, picking up 48% of the votes and beating […]

[Read more →]

Yesterday we released the latest version of Surf Canyon’s client application. One of the most important enhancements you won’t even be able to “see,” but we’ve adjusted some of our processes to enhance the speed with which the application operates. Your Recommendations should now come faster than ever. The change that you will be able […]

[Read more →]

The latest version of Surf Canyon (v3.0.2) went out yesterday, so many of you have already received the auto-update. The important new feature is “sharing.” In collaboration with Shareaholic, Surf Canyon now enables users to share virtually any webpage on the internet. By clicking the envelope button in the URL bar at the top of […]

[Read more →]

Real-time Personalization Application for Google, Yahoo! and Bing Experiences User Growth Along With Industry Recognition for SIGIR OAKLAND, CALIF. November 10, 2009 – Surf Canyon (www.SurfCanyon.com), the developer of the popular application that delivers real-time search personalization on Google, Yahoo! and Bing, proudly announces that yesterday it surpassed one million queries per day. “Crossing the […]

[Read more →]