Entries Tagged as 'Media'

Media Coverage from Asia

October 23rd, 2008

Lifehacker Japan recently wrote about Surf Canyon. While the technology wasn’t explicitly developed for Japanese, it does work in many different languages, so it’s great to see that it’s delivering value. Here are some translated bits: “Surf Canyon… adds a new dimension to the search results… If the results include something close to what you’re […]

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Tags: Media · Testimonials

Kudos from Network World

October 8th, 2008

Mark Gibbs at Network World recently evaluated our application and had this to say in his article entitled “Surf Canyon improves search…really”: “In use, Surf Canyon is very pleasantly discrete and for the first week or so you’ll probably forget to use it. Even so, eventually you’ll start clicking on the bullseye logos and you’ll […]

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Two Conference Selections

October 6th, 2008

Surf Canyon was recently selected to present at two prestigious conferences. The first is the Fourth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit to be held at the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach on November 11th and 12th. Mark Cramer will be speaking on the “Searching for the Future” panel with Hakia, to be […]

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The Big Report on Internet Search

September 30th, 2008

Richard Martin at InformationWeek, writing for Internet Evolution, put together “The Big Report” entitled “The Right Search Tool” on advances in the search industry. The article is also available on page 35 of the September 29th edition of InformationWeek. Here are the bits that concern Surf Canyon, which was one of the select companies profiled: […]

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Taking to the Radio Waves

September 26th, 2008

Over the past month, Mark Cramer has been interviewed on the subject of Surf Canyon by a number of radio stations around the country. You may listen here: July 31st – WICC in Bridgeport, CT August 14th – Tron Simpson of KCMN-AM in Colorado Springs, CO and WHIP Charlotte, NC August 20th – WCSM in […]

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Tags: Media · Presentations

I Miss You When You’re Gone

September 23rd, 2008

Scott Blitstein at Web Worker Daily gives a very nice review of Surf Canyon. In particular, he had this to say: “I guess the way I know that Surf Canyon is useful to me is that I notice the lack of the bullseye on machines where it isn’t installed. I don’t realize how much I […]

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“Interesting and Innovative” from CenterNetworks

September 21st, 2008

Following a phone call during his trip out West, Allen Stern at CenterNetworks had this to say about Surf Canyon: “Compared to some of the other search engine addons I’ve reviewed in the past, Surf Canyon offers an interesting and innovative model. Surf Canyon is trying to solve the problem of too many search results […]

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“Research Potential is Incredible”

August 21st, 2008

Ed Rasimus, who spent 23 years flying fast jets for the USAF, 10 years doing computer software reviews for ZDNet and who wrote two books on his combat experiences, had this to say today on his blog: “Searches with Google or Yahoo are enhanced with a nifty extension called Surf Canyon. Get a Google hit […]

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Making the grade in School 2.0

August 14th, 2008

John Brandon at Computerworld added Surf Canyon to his very short list of “back to school” 2.0 websites. He recommends Surf Canyon for “students who need a powerful search tool for research.”

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Offering Insight to Investor’s Business Daily

August 6th, 2008

Brian Deagon at Investor’s Business Daily wrote a piece on search startups entitled, “Many Would-Be Google Killers Boast Big Weapon — VC Bucks.” Surf Canyon was one of the companies profiled and Mark Cramer, CEO, had the following to offer: But no one has broken into the big leagues since 10-year-old Google. “You have to […]

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