Product

Surf Canyon's product is a browser extension that is installed in the user's browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer or Chrome). The client-side application communicates with a centralized server where the relevancy algorithms are hosted and maintained.

Once installed, when users go to Google, Yahoo!, Bing or Craigslist and enter a search, they'll see Surf Canyon's bull's eyes next to the search results. Clicking on a bull's eye or on a result triggers the technology to make "instantaneous relevancy" calculations in order to present recommended search results, which are dug out from subsequent pages of the result set.

By using real-time behavior signals to disambiguate queries, Surf Canyon enables users to more quickly and easily discover relevant information that might otherwise have remained buried in the result set, significantly accelerating the search process.

Click here for a quick tutorial on how Discovery for Search™ works.


Surf Canyon 3.3.8 (March 20, 2012)
  • Search bar (Firefox only)
  • Various bug fixes
Surf Canyon 3.3.7 (January 24, 2012)
  • Various bug fixes
Surf Canyon 3.3.6 (November 14, 2011)
  • Enhanced search links
Surf Canyon 3.3.5 (October 6, 2011)
  • Various bug fixes
Surf Canyon 3.3.4 (August 4, 2011)
  • Various bug fixes
Surf Canyon 3.3.3 (May 27, 2011)
  • Roaming search suggestions
Surf Canyon 3.3.0 (March 29, 2011)
  • Coupons
Surf Canyon 3.2.0 (February 9, 2011)
  • Search links
  • Fix Craigslist image previews
Surf Canyon 3.1.0 (September 13, 2010)
  • Compatibility with Google Instant
  • Similar product images
Surf Canyon 3.0.6 (June 30, 2010)
  • Extension deactivates when Firefox is in Private Browsing Mode
Surf Canyon 3.0.5 (March 25, 2010)
  • Compatibility with new Craigslist page format
Surf Canyon 3.0.4 (February 15, 2010)
  • Several performance enhancements and bugfixes
Surf Canyon 3.0.2 (November 12, 2009)
  • Share any web page via email, Gmail, Facebook or Twitter by clicking the envelope icon in the URL bar (Firefox only)
  • Large Craigslist images are now available via mouse-over
Surf Canyon 3.0.1 (August 30, 2009)
  • Compatibility with changes in Google's results page
Surf Canyon 3.0.0 (July 30, 2009)
  • Search site (search.SurfCanyon.com) that enables re-ranking without a download
  • Enhanced SearchBar functionality including dropdown Refinements and, for IE8, top search results with preview images
  • New look and feel for Surf Canyon website
Surf Canyon 2.0.5 (June 4, 2009)
  • Support for Bing
  • Additional compatibility with Google search pages
Surf Canyon 2.0.4 (April 30, 2009)
  • Top of page Refinements(Customized query suggestions will help you to formulate your searches as well as take you to pre-personalized result pages.
  • Status bar icon (Firefox only)(The small bull's eye in the corner of the browser allows for quick enabling and disabling of Surf Canyon's recommendations.
Surf Canyon 2.0.3 (March 27, 2009)
  • Compatibility with the WOT Firefox extension
  • Compatibility with Internet Explorer 8
Surf Canyon 2.0.1 (February 18, 2009)
  • "More Results" link removed and native navigation restored (for all browsers)
  • When a subsequent page of results is displayed, update the result numbers where it says "Results 1 to 50 of 3,573,953" on top of the page (Firefox only)
Surf Canyon 2.0.0 (December 9, 2009)
  • Added my.SurfCanyon.com to manage domain preferences and settings
  • Compatibility with McAfee Site Advisor
Surf Canyon 1.1.6 (November 21, 2008)
  • Compatibility with Google SearchWiki
Surf Canyon 1.1.4 (October 16, 2008)
  • Recommendations now include Refinement links for drilling down deeper into the search
  • Fixed incompatibility with some Google search result links
Surf Canyon 1.1.3 (August 22, 2008)
  • No recommendations when confidence is not high enough
  • "More Results" link removed and native navigation restored (Firefox only)
Surf Canyon 1.1.2 (July 22, 2008)
  • User interface translated to Russian
Surf Canyon 1.1.1 (July 2, 2008)
  • Surf Canyon now works if your browser does not accept cookies.
  • User interface translated to German and Portuguese
Surf Canyon 1.1.0 (June 12, 2008)
  • Support for Craigslist image previews
  • Support for Firefox 3.0
Surf Canyon 1.0.3 (May 15, 2008)
  • Support for Google Custom Search
Surf Canyon 1.0.1 (March 29, 2008)
  • Relevancy Engine support for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Turkish, Finnish, Romanian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian
  • User interface translated to Spanish and French
Surf Canyon 1.0.0 (February 19, 2008)
  • Initial product launch