Surf Canyon is a browser extension that personalizes search engine results as you search! Available for download as an add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer (IE6 and IE7), the software figures out what you want and then automatically recommends relevant search results.
You can use my.SurfCanyon.com to further customize your search experience.
- Improve your search on Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft (MSN Live Search) and Craigslist
- Find relevant information from as deep as page 100 of the search results
- Personalize your search in real time: recommended search results reflect instantaneous relevancies, based on your actions
- Add preview images to Craigslist listing pages
After having spent time analyzing Surf Canyon’s product, we believe that... real-time personalization represents a significant next step in the evolution of search.
— Gene Munster, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Jaffray
I've been using the plug-in for several weeks now and have quickly grown to love it.
— Carla Thompson, Senior Analyst at The Guidewire Group
Surf Canyon eliminates the need to repeatedly search within results. I no longer have to try to think like an algorithm. As soon as I find one needle in the haystack of results, Surf Canyon pulls out the others.
— Marcus S., attorney
What I like best about Surf Canyon is the interface. It doesn't take you to another Web page. The recommended results just appear underneath the appropriate link. It feels more like an application than a cumbersome Website where you have to click through multiple pages to find what you want. Google could take a lesson in interface design from Surf Canyon here with all of its Ajax goodness.
— Erick Schonfeld, co-editor at TechCrunch
I've been using [Surf Canyon] for two months and it has become totally indispensable.
— Christophe Deschamps, information management consultant
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Get recommendations by selecting a result or clicking a bull’s eye. Close the recommendations by clicking the "X" or clicking the bull’s eye again.
Subsequent pages of results are customized based on real-time relevance calculations.
Recommendations nest to 3 levels, enabling you to dig deep into the results to find the information you need that otherwise would have been buried.
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