Joel Evans at Geek.com provides an excellent example of how Surf Canyon enables users to find relevant, and often essential, information that the otherwise might have missed. In the middle of his post regarding getting Entourage to work with the iPhone, he explains: “I never would have figured this out on my own and thanks […]
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May 8th, 2008
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Extension Approved by Mozilla!
May 4th, 2008
We’re pleased to announce that today Mozilla approved our Firefox extension, which is now available to the general public on addons.Mozilla.org.
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Alternative Search Engines Day
April 24th, 2008
Surf Canyon’s Chief Scientist, David Hardtke, Ph.D., participated in a panel discussion at Alternative Search Engines Day. The topic of the panel was “Users First: Give them WHAT they want, the WAY they want (and need).” Also on the panel were Jaideep Singh of Spock, Siva Kumar or TheFind, and Rob Rustad of Collarity. The […]
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Popgadget and Search Engine Journal Weigh In
April 14th, 2008
Hoyun Kim at Popgadget touches a current frustration with search: “More and more, it seems that what comes up at the top in browser search results is determined by factors having little to do with what I’m really looking for… what I’m looking for may be buried so deep that I’ll never find [it].” And, […]
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Presenting to the Public
April 4th, 2008
Surf Canyon recently had the opportunity to demonstrate its product at a couple of forums in San Francisco. The first was at the March Geek Out on the 12th hosted by SF New Tech. The audience seemed to think we did a pretty good job. The second was at SF Beta on April 1st. Rebecca […]
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v1.0.1 Released
April 3rd, 2008
We recently pushed out the latest version of our Discovery Engine for Search.™ Our version page has the details of the additional features, however, Kristen Nicole at Mashable does a great job of explaining what’s new.
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Search Reformulation Alternative
March 25th, 2008
Cesar Brea posts some insightful comments on his blog, Octavianworld: “The weakest link here is … being dependent on users structuring their search queries so as to accurately depict their objective as otherwise the in-context Ads will be as useless to the user as the search results. Such a requirement is taxing for the user […]
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CEO Spotlight
March 21st, 2008
Natalya put together a CEO profile for AltSearchEngines.
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The Geeks Have Spoken
March 18th, 2008
Joel Evans, Chief Geek of Geek.com, today made Surf Canyon a “Geek Pick” and had this to say: “This is a must-have plug-in… I tend to use Google for the majority of my searching, and this tool breathed new life into the experience.” Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Editor and Chief of The Next Web, and not necessarily […]
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SES NYC Panelist Selection
March 10th, 2008
Surf Canyon was recently selected as one of five companies for the Search Engine Strategies Search Engine Panel in New York City on March 20th.
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