As promised not so long ago, today we launched our new updates: a minor facelift and an improved algorithm.

What changed? Just a few to enumerate:

• now it’s even easier to influence the results on the popular tab

• voting up or down and commenting is simple whether logged in as a user or anonymously with a captcha

• we’ve removed some of our sources and replaced them with even better ones

• after opening any URL you don’t have to go back to surchur in order to share your opinions regarding it, you can easily vote and comment on our brand new toolbar

• the related surches feature is now improved giving you better suggestions for other searches you may be interested in

If you are looking for your fav celeb, movie releases, politicians, sports news, local updates …you name it - we are the best spot for learning about the “right now” world.

Feel free to try the newly juiced up surchur and send your feedback to marketing [at] surchur [dot] com

Veni, vidi, surch!

We have grown in almost two years (1 year and 7 months actually ) as others in 3 years or even more. We’ve come a long way since our launch in 2008, but the best is yet to come. Be prepared to be once again surchurfied in January 2010 as we launch our new features and updates.

Thank you for your opinions and suggestions, thank you for being such an active community, thank you for your interest in us. Here’s to a good surch!

We wish everyone Happy Holidays and a surchurific New Year!

The Surchur Team

“Monitoring your brand online can be a serious effort - the number of channels and outlets you need to track, the anonymity of potential brand attackers or even promoters, the speed with which fallacious information can spread and ruin the value of what would have once been a carefully planned and thoughtful brand approach…” you can read Todd Hogan’s article on brand monitoring here.

We’re excited with this blog entry to announce the most ambitious update to surchur in our history - we are moving to a massively social platform that will allow our users to contribute to our results and will be much more complete in scanning the web for what is popular based on information from tweets, digg and other socially driven sites. The new “popular” tab on our search pages will give you an up to date view of the hottest pages on the Internet and will allow users to contribute by voting up and commenting on the most popular URLs and topics on the web.

This update also comes with the great news that our growth has been astounding over the past several months- we have more than doubled every month since we launched the first of our most recent updates, the surchmeter, in May and helping us to quickly shoot past the million visitor per month mark and well on our way to 2 million.

We will continue to update you with additional news about the new features over the coming days and weeks, but for now we’d like to thank all of our users for the joy of having our website valued as a real time search and discover destination. And finally, we’d encourage you to try out the newest updates to surchur by visiting the homepage and doing a surch of your own or visiting one of the hottopics or catchingfire links.

Thank you once again to everyone for helping grow our community,

Todd Hogan
Founder

Acknowledge the great know-how of surchur in another top-notch review, this time from Matt McGee himself http://bit.ly/qO1xu