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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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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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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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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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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Less than one month after being “approved” by Mozilla, we’re thrilled to announce that our extension has been added to their list of “recommended add-ons,” an honor bestowed to a mere 3% of those available. Drew Olanoff at Download Squad picked up the news with the following: “When we saw Surf Canyon, we figured it […]

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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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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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