Surf Canyon

Rated the best search engine on About.com, Surf Canyon offers users the advantage of more involvement in their search experience. Instead of requiring those searching the Internet to sort through thousands upon thousands of results from a major search engine, Surf Canyon allows its users to select a link that best matches their desired topic, thereby sorting the results according to that subject. They can also exclude certain topics through a similar means.

In addition to employing the search engine found at SurfCanyon.com, those interested can also download the technology is a browser extension. This browser extension works similarly to the search engine, but allows users to employ standard search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing while still enjoying the advantages of Surf Canyon's user control.

Surf Canyon maintains affiliations with groups such as the Association for Computing Machinery, including its Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval and Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. The company has also earned several patents for its unique approach.