computer software founded oakland california u.s. april 4 2006 2006 04 04 founder mark cramer mike wertheim headquarters san francisco california u.s. number of employees 4 website surfcanyon.com footnotes references data from crunchbase surf canyon is a small computer software company founded and located in san francisco california . both their extension and search site use implicit relevance feedback in real time to personalize searches especially targeting those with specific objectives or where timeliness is a factor . 1 in the case of the extension those searches can be on google yahoo bing and craigslist . 2 according to a review in the japanese edition of lifehacker 3 the extension also provides relevance feedback in languages other than english using diverse character sets . the company s blog also claims to support russian . citation needed third party recognition edit in 2010 the surf canyon website won the about.com reader s choice award for best search engine with 48 % of the vote compared to google s 34 % second place . 4 the company s technology and published research have been cited several times in academic works dealing with dynamic approaches to search . 5 references edit martin richard . the right search tool . information week . 27 september 2008 . 35 . boehret katherine . web searches that really bear fruit . in the mossberg solution walter s. mossberg ed . wall street journal . dow jones & co. new york 14 january 2008 . d6 www.lifehacker.jp 2008 10 post 294.html boswell wendy march 2010 . about web search 2010 reader s choice awards winners best search engine . about.com . the new york times company . archived from the original on 2011 02 14 . retrieved 2011 02 14 . surf canyon 30 october 2010 . citation in cornell university ph.d. dissertation . surfcanyon.com . oakland ca surf canyon . retrieved 2011 02 14 . external links edit surf canyon home page demonstration of improved search result relevancy using real time implicit relevance feedback this article related to a computer company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this software company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title surf canyon & oldid 627069488 categories computer company stubssoftware company stubscompanies based in oakland californiafirefox add onsinternet explorer add onshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2014all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 september 2014 at 19 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view