This morning, Carla Thompson, senior analyst at The Guidewire Group, had some glowing things to say about her experiences with Surf Canyon: “I’ve been using the plug-in for several weeks now and have quickly grown to love it. It’s one of my favorite types of technology – I downloaded it and forgot about it until […]

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Surf Canyon’s browser extension significantly accelerates the search process, enables searchers to find relevant information buried among results OAKLAND, CALIF. February 19, 2008 – Surf Canyon today announced the official release of its Discovery Engine for Search™ at www.SurfCanyon.com. The browser extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox, designed to disambiguate user queries in real time, […]

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It has been observed for some time that search engine users rarely venture past the first page of results. Various studies have shown that only 10% of the time does a user click on a result with a rank greater than 10. A typical user would thus rather reformulate the query or abandon the search […]

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“Personalization,” which is the tailoring of a product to the specific interests and needs of an individual, has been widely heralded as an important web innovation as search engines, and websites in general, work to deliver greater value to users. There are, in general, two types of personalization, explicit and implicit, which must both be […]

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According to DEMO.com: “Surf Canyon is a service that tweaks primary search results for greater accuracy than big-name search engines provide making it an Innovator to Watch.”

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Perhaps lost in all the coverage surrounding the extraordinary financial successes of search-related companies is the story regarding growing dissatisfaction with internet search. These stats from an InformationWeek article entitled “The Ultimate Search Engine” are nonetheless becoming more familiar: “People search for 11 minutes on average before finding what they’re looking for, and half abandon […]

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Surf Canyon recently received some positive coverage in the Hexagon, with nice reviews at Outils Froids and Journalistiques. While both are in French, we have taken the liberty of translating a sentence from the conclusion of M. Deschamps’ article: “For two days I have tested [Surf Canyon] with all my searches as opposed to using […]

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Here’s a quick 1, 2, 3 to help you get the most out of our Discovery Engine for Search™. Step 1: Enter you query on our website or, if you like, download our add-on and then go to your favorite search engine (Google, Yahoo! or Bing), just like you always do, and enter your keywords. […]

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After 1½ years of development, Surf Canyon has emerged from “stealth” mode. Last week a number of online journals, including CNET, Mashable and VentureBeat, published articles about the technology and company. Coverage was picked up in places like Egypt, Russia, Japan and Germany.

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For people familiar with Google’s “similar pages” links, it is important to note that they are not at all related to Surf Canyon’s Recommendations. The “similar pages” links on Google give users a sampling of websites that are linked to by the same websites linking to that particular result. Confusing? For example, if website A […]

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