Following a phone call during his trip out West, Allen Stern at CenterNetworks had this to say about Surf Canyon: “Compared to some of the other search engine addons I’ve reviewed in the past, Surf Canyon offers an interesting and innovative model. Surf Canyon is trying to solve the problem of too many search results […]

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Late last night we released the latest version of our application. The first important change is that we altered the frequency with which we deliver “recommendations.” With previous versions we would always deliver at least one recommended search result in response to a user action. With v1.1.3, however, all recommended search results must satisfy a […]

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Ed Rasimus, who spent 23 years flying fast jets for the USAF, 10 years doing computer software reviews for ZDNet and who wrote two books on his combat experiences, had this to say today on his blog: “Searches with Google or Yahoo are enhanced with a nifty extension called Surf Canyon. Get a Google hit […]

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John Brandon at Computerworld added Surf Canyon to his very short list of “back to school” 2.0 websites. He recommends Surf Canyon for “students who need a powerful search tool for research.”

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Brian Deagon at Investor’s Business Daily wrote a piece on search startups entitled, “Many Would-Be Google Killers Boast Big Weapon — VC Bucks.” Surf Canyon was one of the companies profiled and Mark Cramer, CEO, had the following to offer: But no one has broken into the big leagues since 10-year-old Google. “You have to […]

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Cuil just launched their search engine which boasts the largest index on the internet with 120 billion pages. (121,617,892,992 to be precise, as posted on their home page.) While the exact numbers are not always made available, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft also all have 10s of billions of pages in their indexes. Having as comprehensive […]

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Today Surf Canyon was awarded “Cool Site of the Day” by… well… www.CoolSiteoftheDay.com. They’re quite cool, too.

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Today the latest release of Surf Canyon was unleashed upon the world. The most important development is the enhanced compatibility with the Firefox version of Google Preview, which is available on addons.Mozilla.org. Google Preview “inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages” and these previews are now available […]

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One of the techniques that Surf Canyon uses to determine if a search result is relevant to your query is to examine synonyms. Princeton University provides Wordnet, a structured lexicon that acts as a dictionary and thesaurus. There are a few open source Java libraries that provide a Java API to Wordnet. We tried using […]

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v1.1.1 of the extension was released today. Here are the major improvements: Now works if your browser does not accept cookies User interface translated to Deutsch and Português Craigslist enhancements Various patches and performance enhancements

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