v2.0.2 – Real-time Personalization Enhanced With Real-Time Results

March 10th, 2009

It wasn’t too long ago that we pushed out v2.0.1, but v2.0.2 could not wait. Perhaps that’s because it has to do with real-time information for your searches on the major search engines. Back in December, ReadWriteWeb start talking about how Twitter, a very popular micro-blogging service, could deliver search results “in real time.” Search […]

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Tags: Announcements · Collaboration

“Indispensable”, “remarkable” says Network World

March 3rd, 2009

Mark Gibbs at Network World just wrote up Surf Canyon for the second time (here was the first) and we are flattered! “Also on my list when it comes to search is a cool browser add-on/plug-in that I now can’t live without: the Surf Canyon browser search assistant. What’s surprising about Surf Canyon is just […]

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Tags: Media · Testimonials

Collaborating with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

February 27th, 2009

Tech.com, a media property owned and operated by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and focused on providing news on research and emerging innovations that are developed within universities, research labs and start-up companies throughout the world, today announced that Surf Canyon and the UIUC have “come together to commercialize the concept […]

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Tags: Announcements · Collaboration · Media

Happy Birthday to Us!

February 19th, 2009

Surf Canyon has been around since April of 2006, however, it was one year ago today that we launched our application to some very flattering reviews. Since then, there have been a number of exciting achievements during our first year: Over 500 thousand people benefited from our search technology Over 80 million queries on Google, […]

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Tags: - Top Posts - · Announcements · Collaboration · Discovery · Media · Personalization · Testimonials

v2.0.1 – The Lexis Web Edition

February 18th, 2009

It’s been over ten weeks since our last release of Surf Canyon, but the latest version (v2.0.1) was pushed out today. The most notable enhancement is support for Lexis Web, a new freely-available legal search engine where you can search legal-oriented web sites that are determined by LexisNexis to be trustworthy and authoritative. Also, for […]

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Tags: Announcements · Collaboration

MIT’s Technology Review Offers Insights

January 29th, 2009

Kate Greene, Information Technology Editor at Technology Review, established in 1899 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the oldest technology magazine in the world, wrote an article entitled “Digging Deeper in Web Search – A personalization search tool reveals links buried deep within page results” featuring Surf Canyon. “Crucially, these new results are cleverly […]

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Tags: Media · Personalization · Testimonials

Chatting with InnerCircle 1 Venture Forum

January 26th, 2009

Bob Christopher, entrepreneur, innovator and creator of InnerCircle 1 Venture Forum, sat down to talk with Mark Cramer about the inspiration for Surf Canyon and what it takes to build a successful start-up.

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Tags: Media

Know Thy Add-on User

January 20th, 2009

Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, offers some thoughts on the Mozilla blog regarding gathering and responding to user feedback. We have done our best to collect as much as information as possible from our users, as well as anyone else who wishes to offer feedback, and will continue to strive to respond, to the […]

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Tags: Tutorials

On Top in the Low Countries

January 19th, 2009

T-Mobile Netherlands, which manages the second largest ISP in the Netherlands, Online.nl, has named Surf Canyon to its list of “Five essential plugins to get more out of Firefox.”

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Tags: Media · Testimonials

The Four Quadrants of Personalization

January 14th, 2009

Yesterday, The Mossberg Solution Column of the Wall Street Journal ran an article about Google’s SearchWiki and Surf Canyon. While we’ve released an update of our software to make sure that these two technologies are compatible and have discussed how they compliment each other, it’s perhaps worth positioning these technologies in a larger framework of […]

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Tags: Discovery · Personalization · Research