Surf Canyon

Today the latest release of Surf Canyon was unleashed upon the world. The most important development is the enhanced compatibility with the Firefox version of Google Preview, which is available on addons.Mozilla.org. Google Preview “inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages” and these previews are now available […]

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Kaila Colbin, who blogs for VortexDNA, had some very flattering comments in a MediaPost Search Insider article entitled “Speculating in (Online) Real Estate”:
“I love this idea [Surf Canyon] for a few reasons. It fits neatly into what the user is already doing at the time: no upskilling or behavioral change necessary. It integrates beautifully […]

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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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Less than one month after being “approved” by Mozilla, we’re thrilled to announce that our extension has been added to their list of “recommended add-ons,” an honor bestowed to a mere 3% of those available. Drew Olanoff at Download Squad picked up the news with the following:
“When we saw Surf Canyon, we figured it was […]

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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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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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Cesar Brea posts some insightful comments on his blog, Octavianworld:
“The weakest link here is … being dependent on users structuring their search queries so as to accurately depict their objective as otherwise the in-context Ads will be as useless to the user as the search results. Such a requirement is taxing for the user […]

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Joel Evans, Chief Geek of Geek.com, today made Surf Canyon a “Geek Pick” and had this to say:
“This is a must-have plug-in… I tend to use Google for the majority of my searching, and this tool breathed new life into the experience.”
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Editor and Chief of The Next Web, and not necessarily a […]

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This morning, Carla Thompson, senior analyst at The Guidewire Group, had some glowing things to say about her experiences with Surf Canyon:
“I’ve been using the plug-in for several weeks now and have quickly grown to love it. It’s one of my favorite types of technology - I downloaded it and forgot about it until it […]

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