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Google’s SearchWiki & Surf Canyon Share The Mossberg Solution Column

January 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Katherine Boehret at the Wall Street Journal wrote this week’s The Mossberg Solution column, which will appear in tomorrow’s print edition, entitled “Web Searches That Really Bear Fruit.” The subject, two “new free tools [that] aim to make online results more relevant by tracking your reactions,” is Google’s SearchWiki and Surf Canyon. We are naturally [...]

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Evaluating Surf Canyon’s Technology (Part 2)

December 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a Part I, we began discussing some quantitative evaluations of the technology reported in our research paper.  The goal in these studies is to see if search engine users get any value out of real-time implicit personalization and, if so, to find metrics that we can use to quantify this value. One of the [...]

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The Reviews Are Rave

February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Tags: - Top Posts - · Media · Testimonials