Entries Tagged as 'Testimonials'

One of 20 Recommended Add-ons for Firefox

March 28th, 2009

Don Reisinger, a technology columnist and member of the CNET Blog Network who posts at The Digital Home, includes Surf Canyon in his list of 20 recommended add-ons for Firefox. Surf Canyon is one of the five add-ons recommended for students.

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5 Stars from CNET Editors

March 15th, 2009

It occurred a couple months ago, but the Editors at CNET have given Surf Canyon a 5-star review: “Save time when you surf with this smart add-on that offers further recommendations based on your searches… Basically, this program weeds through of all the useless search results and can save you valuable time. Best of all, […]

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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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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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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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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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Google’s SearchWiki & Surf Canyon Share The Mossberg Solution Column

January 13th, 2009

Katherine Boehret at the Wall Street Journal wrote this week’s The Mossberg Solution column, which will appear in tomorrow’s print edition, entitled “Web Searches That Really Bear Fruit.” The subject, two “new free tools [that] aim to make online results more relevant by tracking your reactions,” is Google’s SearchWiki and Surf Canyon. We are naturally […]

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Top 10 Alternative Search Engines for 2008!

December 19th, 2008

We are honored to announce that ReadWriteWeb has selected Surf Canyon as one of the Top Ten Alternative Search Engines for 2008! According to Charles Knight, Editor of AltSearchEngines: “… Surf Canyon understands implicitly what you are looking for.” “As evidence of just how much the landscape is changing, three of our top 10 products […]

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v2.0.0 – Welcome to my.SurfCanyon.com

December 9th, 2008

Today Surf Canyon released it’s most important update since originally launching in February – version 2.0.0. The introduction of my.SurfCanyon.com enables users to explicitly customize results on Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live Search by indicating domains that they prefer as well as those that they dislike. As a result, “preferred” domains will receive preferential treatment […]

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v1.1.6 – SearchWiki Compatibility

November 21st, 2008

Yesterday Google began its roll-out of SearchWiki and Surf Canyon’s v1.1.6 was only a few hours behind. When logged into Google, SearchWiki enables users to personalize their individual search pages by “promoting” results to the top  and “removing” results from the page by clicking icons. The latest version of our real-time implicit personalization application is […]

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