Kaila Colbin, who blogs for VortexDNA, had some very flattering comments in a MediaPost Search Insider article entitled “Speculating in (Online) Real Estate”: “I love this idea [Surf Canyon] for a few reasons. It fits neatly into what the user is already doing at the time: no upskilling or behavioral change necessary. It integrates beautifully […]

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In our continuing entirely unscientific look at the search result pages for the presidential candidates, we now turn our attention to the presumptive nominee for the Republican party. John McCain has joked that he uses Google during his search for a running mate, so let’s take a look at what we find when we search […]

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This handy feature has been around for a few weeks, but it’s worth pointing out now. Ever wish there was an easy way to email results you find directly off search results page? Wish no more! Next to every search result Surf Canyon has added an “Email This” link (indicated by the red circles below) […]

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John Shinal at Vator.tv sat down with Mark Cramer to discuss Surf Canyon. Charles Knight, at Alt Search Engines, who never misses anything, also posted the interview. See this video on Vator.tv » Update (6/23/08) – Vator.tv posted the 2nd half of the internet.   See this video on Vator.tv »

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Anthony Ha at VentureBeat helped us announce the latest version, and first major upgrade, of Surf Canyon. v1.1.0 for Firefox includes support for the release version of Firefox 3 and both the Internet Explorer and Firefox extensions are now integrated with Craigslist. When searching through classified listings on Craigslist, in addition to benefiting from Surf […]

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Less than one month after being “approved” by Mozilla, we’re thrilled to announce that our extension has been added to their list of “recommended add-ons,” an honor bestowed to a mere 3% of those available. Drew Olanoff at Download Squad picked up the news with the following: “When we saw Surf Canyon, we figured it […]

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Or, more precisely, what’s hiding in the search results for “Hillary Clinton”? How to Find the Needles in Your Search Results Haystack Enter a search for “Hillary Clinton” on your favorite search engine and the top results will often be bland, official stuff. So where’s the beef? Few people will bother to venture past the […]

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TechCrunch and VentureBeat both broke the news a couple of weeks ago, but today the official press release went out over the wire: Surf Canyon Receives Seed Funding for Search Application Surf Canyon’s innovative technology accelerates the search process, enables searchers to find relevant information buried among results OAKLAND, CALIF. May 28, 2008 – Surf […]

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Our Chief Scientist, David Hardtke, Ph.D., enters into a friendly conversation with Exalead on AltSearchEngines regarding the merits and limitations of both explicit and implicit personalization.

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Gina Trapani at Lifehacker has made Surf Canyon one of its Featured Downloads. GeekyCoder has also posted a nice review, including the following: “Simple concept with huge potential to be the Next Big Thing… Overall, Surf Canyon deserves to be a indispensable toolkit to any serious web surfer who looking for high quality search merge […]

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