Surf Canyon And Search Cloudlet Combine to Form New Search Engine

It seems search engines are all the rage these days with a variety of launches over the past couple of months. Today Valley-based Surf Canyon and Ukraine-based Search Cloudlet have combined their technologies to create a new search engine.

Both companies previously offered browser plugins. We first reviewed Surf Canyon late last year and CEO Mark Cramer explained how the service works. Cramer explained how the application works — basically you enter a search query on Google or Yahoo as you always do. You select a search result and go to that page. If that page isn’t what you were looking for, when you come back to the search result, Surf Canyon looks at results 11-1000 and then recommends other results similar to the one you clicked on. It ignores results you skipped over because it recognizes you weren’t interested in those results.

We reviewed Search Cloudlet also late last year and the service provides a way to refine a search query by clicking on words in tag clouds.

The new search engine uses the technology from both companies to help searchers refine their queries to find exactly what they are looking for. Another similar service is offered by Russian-based Quintura.

Update: AltSearchEngines and Webware have additional coverage.