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Discovering Discovery
Here’s a quick 1, 2, 3 to help you get the most out of Surf Canyon’s Discovery Engine for Search™. Step 1: Enter you query at search.SurfCanyon.com or, if you like, download our add-on and then go to...
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What is Hillary Clinton Hiding?
Or, more precisely, what’s hiding in the search results for “Hillary Clinton”? How to Find the Needles in Your Search Results Haystack Enter a search for “Hillary Clinton” on your favorite search...
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“Email This” to Your Friends
This handy feature has been around for a few weeks, but it’s worth pointing out now. Ever wish there was an easy way to email results you find directly off search results page? Wish no more! Next to...
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John McCain has an SEO Problem
In our continuing entirely unscientific look at the search result pages for the presidential candidates, we now turn our attention to the presumptive nominee for the Republican party. John McCain has...
View ArticleEvaluating Surf Canyon’s Technology (Part 1)
For the past 2½ years, Surf Canyon has been working to improve the web search experience. In particular, we feel that search results individualized to each user and their current context will prove...
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Evaluating Surf Canyon’s Technology (Part 2)
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...
View ArticleKnow Thy Add-on User
Mark Cramer, CEO of Surf Canyon, offers some thoughts on the Mozilla blog regarding gathering and responding to user feedback. We have done our best to collect as much as information as possible from...
View ArticlePanel Participation at Add-on-Con
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...
View ArticleExcellent Demonstration Video
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...
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Reaching the World with AMO Localizations
As anyone who’s developed an add-on for Firefox is probably aware, Mozilla’s AMO pages offer a multitude of localization options for your add-on’s webpage: 33 different languages, including English,...
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Anti-malware Malware
Beware the malware that disguises itself as anti-malware. tl;dr – What You Need to Know If you are one of our users, here is what you need to know: we have never and will never develop malware (you can...
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