Entries Tagged as 'Media'

Popgadget and Search Engine Journal Weigh In

April 14th, 2008

Hoyun Kim at Popgadget touches a current frustration with search: “More and more, it seems that what comes up at the top in browser search results is determined by factors having little to do with what I’m really looking for… what I’m looking for may be buried so deep that I’ll never find [it].” And, […]

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Presenting to the Public

April 4th, 2008

Surf Canyon recently had the opportunity to demonstrate its product at a couple of forums in San Francisco. The first was at the March Geek Out on the 12th hosted by SF New Tech. The audience seemed to think we did a pretty good job. The second was at SF Beta on April 1st. Rebecca […]

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v1.0.1 Released

April 3rd, 2008

We recently pushed out the latest version of our Discovery Engine for Search.™ Our version page has the details of the additional features, however, Kristen Nicole at Mashable does a great job of explaining what’s new.

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Tags: Announcements · Media

Search Reformulation Alternative

March 25th, 2008

Cesar Brea posts some insightful comments on his blog, Octavianworld: “The weakest link here is … being dependent on users structuring their search queries so as to accurately depict their objective as otherwise the in-context Ads will be as useless to the user as the search results. Such a requirement is taxing for the user […]

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Tags: Media · Reformulation · Testimonials

CEO Spotlight

March 21st, 2008

Natalya put together a CEO profile for AltSearchEngines.

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The Geeks Have Spoken

March 18th, 2008

Joel Evans, Chief Geek of Geek.com, today made Surf Canyon a “Geek Pick” and had this to say: “This is a must-have plug-in… I tend to use Google for the majority of my searching, and this tool breathed new life into the experience.” Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Editor and Chief of The Next Web, and not necessarily […]

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SES NYC Panelist Selection

March 10th, 2008

Surf Canyon was recently selected as one of five companies for the Search Engine Strategies Search Engine Panel in New York City on March 20th.

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Tags: Media · Presentations

The Reviews Are Rave

February 19th, 2008

This morning, Carla Thompson, senior analyst at The Guidewire Group, had some glowing things to say about her experiences with Surf Canyon: “I’ve been using the plug-in for several weeks now and have quickly grown to love it. It’s one of my favorite types of technology – I downloaded it and forgot about it until […]

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Surf Canyon Launches Discovery Engine for Search

February 19th, 2008

Surf Canyon’s browser extension significantly accelerates the search process, enables searchers to find relevant information buried among results OAKLAND, CALIF. February 19, 2008 – Surf Canyon today announced the official release of its Discovery Engine for Search™ at www.SurfCanyon.com. The browser extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox, designed to disambiguate user queries in real time, […]

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Tags: Announcements · Discovery · Media · Press Releases · Testimonials

DEMO.com – Innovator to Watch

January 29th, 2008

According to DEMO.com: “Surf Canyon is a service that tweaks primary search results for greater accuracy than big-name search engines provide making it an Innovator to Watch.”

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