Surf Canyon

Real-time Search Personalization Tops Bing, Google and Yahoo!
OAKLAND, CALIF. March 9, 2010 – Surf Canyon, the popular developer of real-time search personalization, was selected by the About Web Search 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards as the “Best Search Engine.” The competition included the major search engines in additional to a number of start-ups.
Since April 2006, Surf […]

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About.com has posted the winners of their 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards and we’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon won in the category of Best Search Engine. In their own words,
“The race for the Best Search Engine was intriguing, with a relatively unknown newcomer, Surf Canyon, picking up 48% of the votes and beating out […]

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Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, recently had the pleasure of a technical discussion regarding real-time search personalization with David Harry, an SEO Expert and author of the very popular HuoMah SEO Blog. David has this to say about Surf Canyon:
“I recently had the extreme pleasure of meeting the gang at SurfCanyon, one VERY personal […]

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Real-time Personalization Application for Google, Bing and Yahoo! Experiences User Growth Along With Industry Recognition for SIGIR
OAKLAND, CALIF. November 10, 2009 – Surf Canyon (www.SurfCanyon.com), the developer of the popular application that delivers real-time search personalization on Google, Bing and Yahoo!, proudly announces that yesterday it surpassed one million queries per day.
“Crossing the million queries […]

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In the October edition of the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal, Surf Canyon was included in the list of “sizzling” lawyer-friendly apps designed to “pump up your PC, PDA and smartphone.” Under the “Research & Reference” section:
“Not sure your search engine is pulling up the results it should? Surf Canyon, a free Firefox and IE […]

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We made our application compatible with IE8 back in March with the v2.0.3 release, and then enhanced the IE8 functionality in July with the v3.0.0 release by taking advantage of some specific IE8 features. In particular, we included image previews, along with the top 3 search results, directly in the SearchBar drop-down.

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Florence Ion at Maximum PC has selected Surf Canyon as the Firefox Add-on of the Week:
“When you need your search engine to be your utilitarian counterpart, Surf Canyon’s search engine assistant will make sure that you receive the most relevant information from your search queries… Surf Canyon helps to make sure that no matter what […]

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We’re thrilled to announce that Surf Canyon has surpassed 1 million downloads on Mozilla’s AMO (addons.mozilla.org) website!

We have thanked Mozilla in the past for the development of their add-on community and their encouragement of and support for add-on developers, but we’d like to take this opportunity to do so again. Thank you!
As we mark this […]

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We’re thrilled to announce the release of v3.0.0! Just shy of two months since our last release, this new version offers some considerable enhancement and major new functionality:

As reported by Anthony Ha at VentureBeat, we have “resurrected” our destination search engine, located at search.SurfCanyon.com. Not only are searchers now able to test the technology prior […]

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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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