About.com has posted the winners of their 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards and we’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon won in the category of Best Search Engine. In their own words, “The race for the Best Search Engine was intriguing, with a relatively unknown newcomer, Surf Canyon, picking up 48% of the votes and beating [...]

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Yesterday we released the latest version of Surf Canyon’s client application. One of the most important enhancements you won’t even be able to “see,” but we’ve adjusted some of our processes to enhance the speed with which the application operates. Your Recommendations should now come faster than ever. The change that you will be able [...]

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The latest version of Surf Canyon (v3.0.2) went out yesterday, so many of you have already received the auto-update. The important new feature is “sharing.” In collaboration with Shareaholic, Surf Canyon now enables users to share virtually any webpage on the internet. By clicking the envelope button in the URL bar at the top of [...]

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Real-time Personalization Application for Google, Yahoo! and Bing Experiences User Growth Along With Industry Recognition for SIGIR OAKLAND, CALIF. November 10, 2009 – Surf Canyon (www.SurfCanyon.com), the developer of the popular application that delivers real-time search personalization on Google, Yahoo! and Bing, proudly announces that yesterday it surpassed one million queries per day. “Crossing the [...]

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We’re honored to announce that Surf Canyon has been invited to participate in the Web Discovery & Search Panel at Piper Jaffray’s Fifth Annual Global Internet Summit to be held at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park on November 10th and 11th. This is the second year in a row that Surf Canyon has [...]

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As Anthony Ha at Venture Beat just reported, we have successfully closed an additional $250,000 in funding. We’re naturally excited by the vote of confidence from both our existing as well as new investors and would like to thank them for their support. The good news, however, does not end there. As mentioned in the [...]

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We made our application compatible with IE8 back in March with the v2.0.3 release, and then enhanced the IE8 functionality in July with the v3.0.0 release by taking advantage of some specific IE8 features. In particular, we included image previews, along with the top 3 search results, directly in the SearchBar drop-down. The official twitter [...]

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Microsoft Bing has invited Surf Canyon to co-sponsor, along with Aardvark and Worio, the Celebratory Closing Cocktail Reception at TechCrunch50. From 5:45-7:45pm on Tuesday the 15th, we’ll be hosting one of the bars in the main hall at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. Our application will be on demonstration and there will be a [...]

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While there are no fancy new features or enhancement to announce this time, this latest version was released to handle compatibility with some changes on Google’s search page. If you’re using Bing or Yahoo! then you don’t need this one, but we’d recommend that you grab it anyway. With this release, we’re suggesting that our [...]

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We’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon has surpassed 1 million downloads on Mozilla’s AMO (addons.mozilla.org) website! We have thanked Mozilla in the past for the development of their add-on community and their encouragement of and support for add-on developers, but we’d like to take this opportunity to do so again. Thank you! As we [...]

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