Today Surf Canyon was awarded “Cool Site of the Day” by… well… www.CoolSiteoftheDay.com. They’re quite cool, too.

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Today the latest release of Surf Canyon was unleashed upon the world. The most important development is the enhanced compatibility with the Firefox version of Google Preview, which is available on addons.Mozilla.org. Google Preview “inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages” and these previews are now available […]

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Kaila Colbin, who blogs for VortexDNA, had some very flattering comments in a MediaPost Search Insider article entitled “Speculating in (Online) Real Estate”: “I love this idea [Surf Canyon] for a few reasons. It fits neatly into what the user is already doing at the time: no upskilling or behavioral change necessary. It integrates beautifully […]

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John Shinal at Vator.tv sat down with Mark Cramer to discuss Surf Canyon. Charles Knight, at Alt Search Engines, who never misses anything, also posted the interview. See this video on Vator.tv » Update (6/23/08) – Vator.tv posted the 2nd half of the internet.   See this video on Vator.tv »

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Anthony Ha at VentureBeat helped us announce the latest version, and first major upgrade, of Surf Canyon. v1.1.0 for Firefox includes support for the release version of Firefox 3 and both the Internet Explorer and Firefox extensions are now integrated with Craigslist. When searching through classified listings on Craigslist, in addition to benefiting from Surf […]

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TechCrunch and VentureBeat both broke the news a couple of weeks ago, but today the official press release went out over the wire: Surf Canyon Receives Seed Funding for Search Application Surf Canyon’s innovative technology accelerates the search process, enables searchers to find relevant information buried among results OAKLAND, CALIF. May 28, 2008 – Surf […]

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Our Chief Scientist, David Hardtke, Ph.D., enters into a friendly conversation with Exalead on AltSearchEngines regarding the merits and limitations of both explicit and implicit personalization.

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Gina Trapani at Lifehacker has made Surf Canyon one of its Featured Downloads. GeekyCoder has also posted a nice review, including the following: “Simple concept with huge potential to be the Next Big Thing… Overall, Surf Canyon deserves to be a indispensable toolkit to any serious web surfer who looking for high quality search merge […]

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Joel Evans at Geek.com provides an excellent example of how Surf Canyon enables users to find relevant, and often essential, information that the otherwise might have missed. In the middle of his post regarding getting Entourage to work with the iPhone, he explains: “I never would have figured this out on my own and thanks […]

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Surf Canyon’s Chief Scientist, David Hardtke, Ph.D., participated in a panel discussion at Alternative Search Engines Day. The topic of the panel was “Users First: Give them WHAT they want, the WAY they want (and need).” Also on the panel were Jaideep Singh of Spock, Siva Kumar or TheFind, and Rob Rustad of Collarity. The […]

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