Surf Canyon

John Shinal at Vator.tv sat down with Mark Cramer to discuss Surf Canyon. Charles Knight, at Alt Search Engines, who never misses anything, also posted the interview.

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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 Canyon’s […]

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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 Canyon today announced […]

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Our Chief Scientist, David Hardtke, Ph.D., enters into a friendly conversation with Exalead on AltSearchEngines regarding the merits and limitations of both explicit and implicit personalization.

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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 with better […]

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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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Surf Canyon’s Chief Scientist, David Hardtke, Ph.D., participated in a panel discussion at Alternative Search Engines Day. The topic of the panel was “Users First: Give them WHAT they want, the WAY they want (and need).” Also on the panel were Jaideep Singh of Spock, Siva Kumar or TheFind, and Rob Rustad of […]

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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, naturally, one […]

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Surf Canyon recently had the opportunity to demonstrate its product at a couple of forums in San Francisco. The first was at the March Geek Out on the 12th hosted by SF New Tech. The audience seemed to think we did a pretty good job. The second was at SF Beta on April 1st. Rebecca […]

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We recently pushed out the latest version of our Discovery Engine for Search.™ Our version page has the details of the additional features, however, Kristen Nicole at Mashable does a great job of explaining what’s new.

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