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 […]
v2.0.2 – Real-time Personalization Enhanced With Real-Time Results
March 10th, 2009
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“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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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 […]
Tags: Discovery · Personalization · Research