Katherine Boehret at the Wall Street Journal wrote this week’s The Mossberg Solution column, which will appear in tomorrow’s print edition, entitled “Web Searches That Really Bear Fruit.” The subject, two “new free tools [that] aim to make online results more relevant by tracking your reactions,” is Google’s SearchWiki and Surf Canyon. We are naturally […]

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We are honored to announce that ReadWriteWeb has selected Surf Canyon as one of the Top Ten Alternative Search Engines for 2008! According to Charles Knight, Editor of AltSearchEngines: “… Surf Canyon understands implicitly what you are looking for.” “As evidence of just how much the landscape is changing, three of our top 10 products […]

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Today Surf Canyon released it’s most important update since originally launching in February – version 2.0.0. The introduction of my.SurfCanyon.com enables users to explicitly customize results on Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live Search by indicating domains that they prefer as well as those that they dislike. As a result, “preferred” domains will receive preferential treatment […]

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Personalized Internet Search Gets Smarter Surf Canyon Version 2.0 Released OAKLAND, CALIF. December 9, 2008 – Today Surf Canyon released version 2.0 of its popular search enhancement application, which uses patents-pending technology to transform the standard, static search engine page into a collection of targeted results that dynamically respond to users’ actions in real time. […]

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On December 11th, Mike Wertheim, our Chief Architect, will be participating on the “Lessons learned developing add-ons for multiple platforms” panel at Add-on-Con, the first ever conference dedicated to the building and Marketing of Add-ons. Update (12/23/08) – Surf Canyon was happy to co-sponsor the after-party. Update (12/29/08) – The video of Mike Wertheim’s panel […]

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In a Part I, we began discussing some quantitative evaluations of the technology reported in our research paper.  The goal in these studies is to see if search engine users get any value out of real-time implicit personalization and, if so, to find metrics that we can use to quantify this value. One of the […]

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Yesterday Google began its roll-out of SearchWiki and Surf Canyon’s v1.1.6 was only a few hours behind. When logged into Google, SearchWiki enables users to personalize their individual search pages by “promoting” results to the top  and “removing” results from the page by clicking icons. The latest version of our real-time implicit personalization application is […]

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Since Surf Canyon was introduced to Mozilla’s download page back in May we have received a number of user reviews. Here is a sampling of some of the best ones: Surf Canyon finds links Google misses by Bob S on October 17, 2008 There are a batch of Google “enhancers” and they work somewhat– but […]

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In our last press release we revealed that Professor Michael Flower of Interdisciplinary Science Studies at Portland State University has become addicted to Surf Canyon and, as such, has begun recommending the application to his students. Now we learn that Professor Pawel Frelik of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, has added Surf Canyon, along […]

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Angela Gunn at BetaNews gives an explanation and review of Surf Canyon: “The results are cleanly presented, and the recent addition of categories within results helps users to understand what the plug-in thinks you’re seeking… results were intriguingly focused, and in a research situation SurfCanyon excels at winnowing the less-than-helpful.” Update (11/3/08) – Tim Conneally […]

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