SurfCanyon: The Personalized Search Plug-in
Pandia Search News, Friday, May 16, 2008 2:30 PM
"SurfCanyon is a Firefox plug-in that claims mind reading capabilities," says the Pandia team. "Even though there's no actual magic involved, this nifty little app does a great job of digging though the search results for the hits you need, even though Google buried them on page 12."
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The tool re-ranks search results from Google, Yahoo and MSN as determined by your own behavior, with the help of small bull's eye icons next to each result. Click the bull's eye and SurfCanyon digs to retrieve more results that are just like it. If none of the choices are right, pick the closest one and drill down--as SurfCanyon will continue to refine the results.
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