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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: August 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 5,099
- Downloads last week: 12
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 8 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on January 09, 2009
Save time when you surf with this smart add-on that offers further recommendations based on your searches. We found its recommendations very helpful.
The program's Options menu allows you to enable specific search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Craigslist. You can also choose the maximum number of recommendations (up to five) for the program to fetch. A tiny bull's-eye icon appears next to each search result and it leads to a list of recommendations. Each recommendation was valid and relevant to the test searches we conducted. We could even drill down within the recommendations to keep refining our search.
Basically, this program weeds through of all the useless search results and can save you valuable time. Best of all, there's no charge for this effective and useful Firefox add-on.
Publisher's description
From Surf Canyon :Ever wonder if there is anything useful past page one of the search results? When your search returns thousands, sometimes millions, of results, there has to be something good out there. There is, and Surf Canyon will go and get it for you. It is a tiny browser extension that helps you find relevant information buried in the search results on Google, Yahoo, MSN Live search, or Craigslist. By observing real-time actions (no profiles or histories required), it figures out what you want and then goes and fetches it for you, significantly accelerating the search process. Version 3.0 includes enhanced SearchBar functionality including dropdown refinements.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0 includes enhanced SearchBar functionality including dropdown refinements.
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Version: Surf Canyon for Firefox 3.0
"Undisclosed Sponsors Hijack Search Results"
Pros: Rearranges and re-orders search results interspersing "sponsor" results without disclosing that they're paid or distinguishing them. Whether it makes Google results "better" strikes me as an open question.
Cons: Paid sponsor interference with order of Google search results, eliminating the neutrality of Google to benefit those who can afford to pay for higher placement.
Summary: Techcrunch.com, which maybe I'm wrong but I consider a reliable source, says of Search Canyon as well as an apparently similar app called ManagedQ: "[N]either one comes close to offering a better overall search experience than Google does on its own... read more >>
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Version: Surf Canyon for Firefox 3.0
"works as reviews said it would"
Pros: works well
Cons: none that i know of
Summary: use it
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Version: Surf Canyon for Firefox 3.0
"Excellent and very useful addition"
Pros: Useful extra help for web searches.
Cons: None that I'm aware of.
Summary: Get it! Few freebies are so good.
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