Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, has been honored with an invitation to present Dynamic Ranked Retrieval at the next Bay Area Search Meetup. Anyone near the offices of eBay in San Jose on Wednesday, January 23rd, at 6:30pm, and who would like to attend, should click over to the Meetup website. Here is an [...]

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Mark Cramer took a few minutes to present Surf Canyon’s Firefox Add-on at the SF Bay Area Firefox Add-ons Meetup Group’s last meeting.  Enjoy the whole thing or jump to the 36 minute mark to see the ~8 minute Surf Canyon demonstration.

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Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, has been selected to present at the exclusive Search Insider Summit to be held at the South Sea Island Resort on Captiva Island, Florida from May 4 to 7. The semiannual event is chaired by Gord Hotchkiss, CEO of Enquiro, and “brings the best minds in the search industry [...]

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On July 13th, Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, will join Eli Goodman, comScore Search Evangelist, for a webinar discussion on the future of search and real-time personalization. To get an idea of the format, comScore offers a library of previous webinars. Here is a copy of the webinar invitation that comScore sent out this [...]

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Len Charnoff, video blogger and one of four Internet entrepreneurs selected by Microsoft to be featured in the television series “America At Work- Road Map To The Internet,” put together an excellent video demonstrating the functionality of Surf Canyon’s browser extension, which we have chosen to share with you. For best viewing, watch directly on [...]

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Once again, Mike Wertheim, our Chief Architect, participated in a panel discussion at the 2009 Add-on-Con on December 11th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Like last year’s topic, this one was related to cross-browser development. For everyone who missed it, you can watch the video either below or on the Add-on-Con blog. [...]

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On the heals of being mentioned in Professor Marti Hearst’s new book, we’re thrilled to announce that the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval has selected Surf Canyon to present at SIGIR 2009. Considered one of the most important conferences in the field of information retrieval, the event will be in [...]

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On December 11th, Mike Wertheim, our Chief Architect, will be participating on the “Lessons learned developing add-ons for multiple platforms” panel at Add-on-Con, the first ever conference dedicated to the building and Marketing of Add-ons. Update (12/23/08) – Surf Canyon was happy to co-sponsor the after-party. Update (12/29/08) – The video of Mike Wertheim’s panel [...]

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Over the past month, Mark Cramer has been interviewed on the subject of Surf Canyon by a number of radio stations around the country. You may listen here: July 31st – WICC in Bridgeport, CT August 14th – Tron Simpson of KCMN-AM in Colorado Springs, CO and WHIP Charlotte, NC August 20th – WCSM in [...]

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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 Collarity. The [...]

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