Surf Canyon

On January 28th, Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, offered some advice regarding entrepreneurship to students at The Pennsylvania State University. Connecting via Skype, he spoke to Professor Jim Jansen’s IdeaPitch course in the College of Information Sciences and Technology about the “mental and affective aspects of starting a company.”

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Vanessa Voltolina at FOLIO: Magazine posted an article this morning announcing the release of Brand Thunder and Surf Canyon’s latest joint project: The Columbus Dispatch’s Browser Theme.

While Surf Canyon personalizes the search results so that content from The Columbus Dispatch is given priority, Brand Thunder customizes the entire browser experience. In addition to visually enhancing […]

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This morning at the Launch: Silicon Valley 2009, Surf Canyon announced the launch of a collaborative effort with Search Cloudlet to produce a search site, available at Cloudlet.SurfCanyon.com, combining the two company’s complimentary technologies. In addition to having the opportunity to demonstrate the new product at LSV 2009, Josh Lowensohn, associate editor for CNET’s Webware.com, […]

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Jolie O’Dell at ReadWriteWeb wrote a post about OneRiot’s new real-time web results API and their partnerships with Surf Canyon and WebMynd. A couple nice screen shots of Surf Canyon in action were included at the bottom. We announced our integration with OneRiot’s real-time web results in March with our launch of v2.0.2 and have […]

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COLUMBUS, OH (May 19, 2009) – Surf Canyon Incorporated and Brand Thunder LLC announced today an agreement to integrate Surf Canyon’s highly praised personalized search application into Brand Thunder’s custom browser Booms!.  Given the complementary nature of the two products, the partnership will focus on improving the search experience for users of Brand Thunder’s Booms!.
Surf […]

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Compatibility with Web of Trust (WOT), an extremely popular, free Internet security add-on for your browser, has been in demand for some time. It is thus with pleasure that we can announce that v2.0.3 (currently available on Mozilla) is fully compatible with the WOT security icons in Firefox.

WOT ratings come from their community of users […]

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It wasn’t too long ago that we pushed out v2.0.1, but v2.0.2 could not wait. Perhaps that’s because it has to do with real-time information for your searches on the major search engines.
Back in December, ReadWriteWeb start talking about how Twitter, a very popular micro-blogging service, could deliver search results “in real time.” Search engines […]

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Tech.com, a media property owned and operated by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and focused on providing news on research and emerging innovations that are developed within universities, research labs and start-up companies throughout the world, today announced that Surf Canyon and the UIUC have “come together to commercialize the concept […]

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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, Yahoo!, Live […]

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It’s been over ten weeks since our last release of Surf Canyon, but the latest version (v2.0.1) was pushed out today. The most notable enhancement is support for Lexis Web, a new freely-available legal search engine where you can search legal-oriented web sites that are determined by LexisNexis to be trustworthy and authoritative.

Also, for Internet […]

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