Lifehacker Japan recently wrote about Surf Canyon. While the technology wasn’t explicitly developed for Japanese, it does work in many different languages, so it’s great to see that it’s delivering value. Here are some translated bits: “Surf Canyon… adds a new dimension to the search results… If the results include something close to what you’re […]

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Surf Canyon recently reached some significant milestones which we shared in this press release: 400,000 People Find Just What They Are Looking For With Surf Canyon  Smart Real-time Personalization Technology Accelerates Web Search OAKLAND, CALIF. October 21, 2008 – Since its release in February, over 400,000 people seeking more precise search results have downloaded Surf […]

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Today we released the latest version of our application. The big, new feature, which some of you might already have seen recently, is “Categories”. While similar to clustering, these Categories are based on real-time actions and will help you to “drill down” on your search through a better understanding of your “at the moment” intent. […]

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For the past 2½ years, we have been working to improve the web search experience. In particular, we feel that search results individualized to each user and their current context will prove superior to search results that are not personalized to real-time intent. Our hypothesis is that real-time personalization works and the  challenge for us […]

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Mark Gibbs at Network World recently evaluated our application and had this to say in his article entitled “Surf Canyon improves search…really”: “In use, Surf Canyon is very pleasantly discrete and for the first week or so you’ll probably forget to use it. Even so, eventually you’ll start clicking on the bullseye logos and you’ll […]

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Surf Canyon was recently selected to present at two prestigious conferences. The first is the Fourth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit to be held at the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach on November 11th and 12th. Mark Cramer will be speaking on the “Searching for the Future” panel with Hakia, to be […]

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Today we’re proud to announce Surf Canyon’s inclusion in the BOSS Mashable Challenge: “The BOSS Mashable Challenge pits developer against developer to compete for the grand prize of $2,000 and an article on Mashable about your winning entry. How do you win?  Build a kickass mashup – search engine or any other Web app – […]

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Richard Martin at InformationWeek, writing for Internet Evolution, put together “The Big Report” entitled “The Right Search Tool” on advances in the search industry. The article is also available on page 35 of the September 29th edition of InformationWeek. Here are the bits that concern Surf Canyon, which was one of the select companies profiled: […]

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Over the past month, Mark Cramer has been interviewed on the subject of Surf Canyon by a number of radio stations around the country. You may listen here: July 31st – WICC in Bridgeport, CT August 14th – Tron Simpson of KCMN-AM in Colorado Springs, CO and WHIP Charlotte, NC August 20th – WCSM in […]

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Scott Blitstein at Web Worker Daily gives a very nice review of Surf Canyon. In particular, he had this to say: “I guess the way I know that Surf Canyon is useful to me is that I notice the lack of the bullseye on machines where it isn’t installed. I don’t realize how much I […]

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