Surf Canyon

Ann Smarty, the new Director of Media for Search & Social at Search Engine Journal, today made Surf Canyon the “Featured Firefox Extension for Search”:
“Surf Canyon is a useful Firefox extension that enhances your web search experience with recommendations based on your preferences.”

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Back in November we updated you on some of the feedback we’ve been receiving on AMO (addons.mozilla.org). Since then there’s been a lot of more positive stuff. Here are some of the highlights:

Mac’s Power Tools by Megalomac on June 10, 2009
This is like adding adrenaline to google search. Based upon your searching, it locates extra […]

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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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Don Reisinger, CNET Blog Network author, returns with another list of useful Firefox extensions. This time he lists the top 15 add-ons for bloggers, and we’re honored to be in the top 3:
“When you research a post on Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, chances are that you might be missing some relevant links on pages […]

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v2.0.4 introduces top of page Refinements. Additionally, the Categories introduced with v1.1.4 have also been relabeled Refinements.
Refinements are suggested query reformulations based on your query and Surf Canyon’s real-time model of your inferred intent. In a sense, Refinements are personalized reformulations targeted to your “at the moment” information need. Furthermore, these links will send you […]

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Kaila Colbin, ambassador for the Web Genome Project, writing “Google Watch” for Network World, talks about the virtues of building businesses upon businesses:
“Take, for example, Surf Canyon. Their handy browser add-on digs into Google results to pull relevant links from further down the SERPs — good for searchers, but also good for the sites, which […]

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Don Reisinger, a technology columnist and member of the CNET Blog Network who posts at The Digital Home, includes Surf Canyon in his list of 20 recommended add-ons for Firefox. Surf Canyon is one of the five add-ons recommended for students.

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It occurred a couple months ago, but the Editors at CNET have given Surf Canyon a 5-star review:
“Save time when you surf with this smart add-on that offers further recommendations based on your searches… Basically, this program weeds through of all the useless search results and can save you valuable time. Best of all, there’s […]

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Mark Gibbs at Network World just wrote up Surf Canyon for the second time (here was the first) and we are flattered!
“Also on my list when it comes to search is a cool browser add-on/plug-in that I now can’t live without: the Surf Canyon browser search assistant.
What’s surprising about Surf Canyon is just how good […]

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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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