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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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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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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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’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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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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Surf Canyon recently received some positive coverage in the Hexagon, with nice reviews at Outils Froids and Journalistiques. While both are in French, we have taken the liberty of translating a sentence from the conclusion of M. Deschamps’ article: “For two days I have tested [Surf Canyon] with all my searches as opposed to using […]

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