Our research, published by SIGIR in December ’09, has now been cited in an academic work for the first time. In a paper entitled “An Approach to the Customization of Web Search Results,” Professors Dr. Sérgio Roberto Pereira da Silva and Dra. Valéria Delisandra Freltrim from the Universidade Estadual de Maringá make several references to […]

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Back in June of 2008 Surf Canyon‘s browser extension was first listed by Mozilla as a “recommended” add-on. Yesterday we received similar treatment from the folks at Google Chrome who have added Surf Canyon to their list of “featured” extensions. We are thrilled and honored by the recognition!

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Len Charnoff, video blogger and one of four Internet entrepreneurs selected by Microsoft to be featured in the television series “America At Work- Road Map To The Internet,” put together an excellent video demonstrating the functionality of Surf Canyon’s browser extension, which we have chosen to share with you. For best viewing, watch directly on […]

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Real-time Search Personalization Tops Google, Yahoo! and Bing OAKLAND, CALIF. March 9, 2010 – Surf Canyon, the popular developer of real-time search personalization, was selected by the About Web Search 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards as the “Best Search Engine.” The competition included the major search engines in additional to a number of start-ups. Since April […]

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Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, conducted an interview with Eric Matas at Technorati. Following up on being selected as “Best Search Engine” by the About Web Search Reader’s Choice Awards, Eric had this to say: ” I reached out to the CEO, Mark Cramer, who agreed to answer some questions about their search engine… […]

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About.com has posted the winners of their 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards and we’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon won in the category of Best Search Engine. In their own words, “The race for the Best Search Engine was intriguing, with a relatively unknown newcomer, Surf Canyon, picking up 48% of the votes and beating […]

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Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, recently had the pleasure of a technical discussion regarding real-time search personalization with David Harry, an SEO Expert and author of the very popular HuoMah SEO Blog. David has this to say about Surf Canyon: “I recently had the extreme pleasure of meeting the gang at SurfCanyon, one VERY […]

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Yesterday we released the latest version of Surf Canyon’s client application. One of the most important enhancements you won’t even be able to “see,” but we’ve adjusted some of our processes to enhance the speed with which the application operates. Your Recommendations should now come faster than ever. The change that you will be able […]

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On January 28th, Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, offered some advice regarding entrepreneurship to students at The Pennsylvania State University. Connecting via Skype, he spoke to Professor Jim Jansen’s IdeaPitch course in the College of Information Sciences and Technology about the “mental and affective aspects of starting a company.”

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Once again, Mike Wertheim, our Chief Architect, participated in a panel discussion at the 2009 Add-on-Con on December 11th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Like last year’s topic, this one was related to cross-browser development. For everyone who missed it, you can watch the video either below or on the Add-on-Con blog. […]

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