Entries Tagged as 'Announcements'

Invited to Return to Piper Jaffray Conference

November 4th, 2009

We’re honored to announce that Surf Canyon has been invited to participate in the Web Discovery & Search Panel at Piper Jaffray’s Fifth Annual Global Internet Summit to be held at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park on November 10th and 11th. This is the second year in a row that Surf Canyon has […]

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Additional Funding and New Advisors

October 8th, 2009

As Anthony Ha at Venture Beat just reported, we have successfully closed an additional $250,000 in funding. We’re naturally excited by the vote of confidence from both our existing as well as new investors and would like to thank them for their support. The good news, however, does not end there. As mentioned in the […]

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IE8 Add-on Gets Microsoft Tweet

September 24th, 2009

We made our application compatible with IE8 back in March with the v2.0.3 release, and then enhanced the IE8 functionality in July with the v3.0.0 release by taking advantage of some specific IE8 features. In particular, we included image previews, along with the top 3 search results, directly in the SearchBar drop-down. The official twitter […]

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Co-sponsoring TechCrunch50 Cocktail Reception with Microsoft Bing

September 13th, 2009

Microsoft Bing has invited Surf Canyon to co-sponsor, along with Aardvark and Worio, the Celebratory Closing Cocktail Reception at TechCrunch50. From 5:45-7:45pm on Tuesday the 15th, we’ll be hosting one of the bars in the main hall at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. Our application will be on demonstration and there will be a […]

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v3.0.1 – Little Maintenance Update

August 27th, 2009

While there are no fancy new features or enhancement to announce this time, this latest version was released to handle compatibility with some changes on Google’s search page. If you’re using Bing or Yahoo! then you don’t need this one, but we’d recommend that you grab it anyway. With this release, we’re suggesting that our […]

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One Million Downloads on AMO

August 25th, 2009

We’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon has surpassed 1 million downloads on Mozilla’s AMO (addons.mozilla.org) website! We have thanked Mozilla in the past for the development of their add-on community and their encouragement of and support for add-on developers, but we’d like to take this opportunity to do so again. Thank you! As we […]

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Columbus Dispatch Browser Theme Goes Live

August 19th, 2009

Vanessa Voltolina at FOLIO: Magazine posted an article this morning announcing the release of Brand Thunder and Surf Canyon’s latest joint project: The Columbus Dispatch’s Browser Theme. While Surf Canyon personalizes the search results so that content from The Columbus Dispatch is given priority, Brand Thunder customizes the entire browser experience. In addition to visually […]

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Surf Canyon Releases Major Update with v3

August 5th, 2009

Destination Search Engine, SearchBar Enhancements, Updated Algorithm and New Website all Lead to Improved User Experience OAKLAND, CALIF. August 5, 2009 – Surf Canyon, the popular search application that delivers real-time re-ranking to the major search engines, has released v3.0.0, available for download at www.surfcanyon.com. Since its release in February 2008, over 1 million people […]

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v3.0.0 – Not only the Journey, but the Destination

July 30th, 2009

We’re thrilled to announce the release of v3.0.0! Just shy of two months since our last release, this new version offers some considerable enhancement and major new functionality: As reported by Anthony Ha at VentureBeat, we have “resurrected” our destination search engine, located at search.SurfCanyon.com. Not only are searchers now able to test the technology […]

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Selected for Oral Presentation at SIGIR ’09

July 15th, 2009

On the heals of being mentioned in Professor Marti Hearst’s new book, we’re thrilled to announce that the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval has selected Surf Canyon to present at SIGIR 2009. Considered one of the most important conferences in the field of information retrieval, the event will be in […]

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