v3.0.2 – All About Sharing

November 13th, 2009

The latest version of Surf Canyon (v3.0.2) went out yesterday, so many of you have already received the auto-update. The important new feature is “sharing.” In collaboration with Shareaholic, Surf Canyon now enables users to share virtually any webpage on the internet. By clicking the envelope button in the URL bar at the top of […]

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Surf Canyon Surpasses One Million Queries A Day

November 10th, 2009

Real-time Personalization Application for Google, Yahoo! and Bing Experiences User Growth Along With Industry Recognition for SIGIR OAKLAND, CALIF. November 10, 2009 – Surf Canyon (www.SurfCanyon.com), the developer of the popular application that delivers real-time search personalization on Google, Yahoo! and Bing, proudly announces that yesterday it surpassed one million queries per day. “Crossing the […]

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Invited to Return to Piper Jaffray Conference

November 4th, 2009

We’re honored to announce that Surf Canyon has been invited to participate in the Web Discovery & Search Panel at Piper Jaffray’s Fifth Annual Global Internet Summit to be held at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park on November 10th and 11th. This is the second year in a row that Surf Canyon has […]

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“Sizzling” says the ABA Journal

November 4th, 2009

In the October edition of the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal, Surf Canyon was included in the list of “sizzling” lawyer-friendly apps designed to “pump up your PC, PDA and smartphone.” Under the “Research & Reference” section: “Not sure your search engine is pulling up the results it should? Surf Canyon, a free Firefox and […]

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Additional Funding and New Advisors

October 8th, 2009

As Anthony Ha at Venture Beat just reported, we have successfully closed an additional $250,000 in funding. We’re naturally excited by the vote of confidence from both our existing as well as new investors and would like to thank them for their support. The good news, however, does not end there. As mentioned in the […]

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IE8 Add-on Gets Microsoft Tweet

September 24th, 2009

We made our application compatible with IE8 back in March with the v2.0.3 release, and then enhanced the IE8 functionality in July with the v3.0.0 release by taking advantage of some specific IE8 features. In particular, we included image previews, along with the top 3 search results, directly in the SearchBar drop-down. The official twitter […]

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Firefox Add-on of the Week

September 22nd, 2009

Florence Ion at Maximum PC has selected Surf Canyon as the Firefox Add-on of the Week: “When you need your search engine to be your utilitarian counterpart, Surf Canyon’s search engine assistant will make sure that you receive the most relevant information from your search queries… Surf Canyon helps to make sure that no matter […]

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Co-sponsoring TechCrunch50 Cocktail Reception with Microsoft Bing

September 13th, 2009

Microsoft Bing has invited Surf Canyon to co-sponsor, along with Aardvark and Worio, the Celebratory Closing Cocktail Reception at TechCrunch50. From 5:45-7:45pm on Tuesday the 15th, we’ll be hosting one of the bars in the main hall at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. Our application will be on demonstration and there will be a […]

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v3.0.1 – Little Maintenance Update

August 27th, 2009

While there are no fancy new features or enhancement to announce this time, this latest version was released to handle compatibility with some changes on Google’s search page. If you’re using Bing or Yahoo! then you don’t need this one, but we’d recommend that you grab it anyway. With this release, we’re suggesting that our […]

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One Million Downloads on AMO

August 25th, 2009

We’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon has surpassed 1 million downloads on Mozilla’s AMO (addons.mozilla.org) website! We have thanked Mozilla in the past for the development of their add-on community and their encouragement of and support for add-on developers, but we’d like to take this opportunity to do so again. Thank you! As we […]

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