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SurfWatch topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies and Technology as prominent areas in the source structure around SurfWatch.

Related topics: 14
Source areas: 3
Connected nodes: 17
Extracted relationships: 42
Concept neighborhoods: 10
Bridge connections: 17

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 7 topics

Acquisition · 4 topics

Founders · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded: 1994
Founders: Ann Duvall, Bill Duvall, Jay Friedland
Industry: Internet filtering
Headquarters: Los Altos, California, U.S.
Fate: Acquired by Spyglass, Inc. in May 1996; later sold to JSB Software Technologies and merged with SurfControl; acquired by Websense in 2007
Products: SurfWatch Internet filtering software

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Founders

RFC Request for Comments
“ChoosetheBlue.com,” Red states and blue states
Plug In America

Acquisition

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How SurfWatch connects Entity context

The extracted context around SurfWatch shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, SurfWatch → American Interactive Media, Comcast Corp, Excite, Home, Inc, JSB Software Technologies, May, Microsoft Corp's WebTV, NTL, Spyglass, SurfControl, Worldgate Another extracted example is SurfWatch → American, At, Communications Decency Act, Congressional, Despite, In, Internet, Opponents, Senate, Steve Lohr, Those, Thus. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Top relations

related to Acquisition · 12

SurfWatch → American Interactive Media, Comcast Corp, Excite, Home, Inc, JSB Software Technologies, May, Microsoft Corp's WebTV, NTL, Spyglass, SurfControl, Worldgate

related to Software in Court · 12

SurfWatch → American, At, Communications Decency Act, Congressional, Despite, In, Internet, Opponents, Senate, Steve Lohr, Those, Thus

related to Founders · 4

SurfWatch → Ann Duvall, Bill Duvall, Jay Friedland, President

Fate · 1

SurfWatch → Acquired by Spyglass, Inc. in May 1996; later sold to JSB Software Technologies and merged with SurfControl; acquired by Websense in 2007

Founded · 1

SurfWatch → 1994

Founders · 1

SurfWatch → Ann Duvall, Bill Duvall, Jay Friedland

Headquarters · 1

SurfWatch → Los Altos, California, U.S.

Industry · 1

SurfWatch → Internet filtering

Products · 1

SurfWatch → SurfWatch Internet filtering software

Type · 1

SurfWatch → Private

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

internet software inc users censorship duvall bill acquired spyglass los altos first filtering alternative websense ann may surfcontrol companies content

SurfWatch relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 42 structured relationships around SurfWatch. Examples in this analysis include SurfWatch → Fate → Acquired by Spyglass, Inc. in May 1996; later sold to JSB Software Technologies and merged with SurfControl; acquired by Websense in 2007 and SurfWatch → Founded → 1994. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
SurfWatch	Fate	Acquired by Spyglass, Inc. in May 1996; later sold to JSB Software Technologies and merged with SurfControl; acquired by Websense in 2007	1.00	infobox
SurfWatch	Founded	1994	1.00	infobox
SurfWatch	Founders	Ann Duvall, Bill Duvall, Jay Friedland	1.00	infobox
SurfWatch	Headquarters	Los Altos, California, U.S.	1.00	infobox
SurfWatch	Industry	Internet filtering	1.00	infobox
SurfWatch	Products	SurfWatch Internet filtering software	1.00	infobox
SurfWatch	Type	Private	1.00	infobox
SurfWatch played a key role in the overturning of the 1996 Communications Decency Act	instance of	software	0.80	text
for it provided Internet users to limit access controlled audiences	instance of	software	0.80	text
rather than limiting the whole of Internet content to all	instance of	software	0.80	text
Microsoft Corp's WebTV	instance of	with plans to continue the software's service to clients	0.80	text
Comcast Corp	instance of	with plans to continue the software's service to clients	0.80	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around SurfWatch bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Duvall, Internet and Alternative. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

SurfWatch
- Duvall
- Internet
- Alternative
- Ann
- Censorship
- Companies
- Users
- Bill
- Block
- Explicit
- Material
- Microsoft
surfwatch
- Duvall
- Internet
- Alternative
- Ann
- Censorship
- Companies
- Users
- Bill
- Block
- Explicit
- Material
- Microsoft
internet censorship
- Offered
- Played
- Believed
- Software
- Users
- Censorship
- Internet
- Surfwatch
- Bill
- Control
- Material
- Parents
spyglass, inc.
- Founders
- Surfcontrol
- Acquired
- Filtering
- May
- Spyglass
- Software
- Block
- Explicit
- Websense
- Surfwatch
- Altos
los altos, ca
- Altos
- Los
- Filtering
- Block
- Explicit
- Content
- First
- Friedland
- Jay
- Websense
- Software
- Ann
websense
- Acquired
- Surfcontrol
- Founders
- Altos
- Filtering
- Friedland
- Jay
- Los
- May
- Spyglass
- Ann
- Inc
sexually explicit
- Material
- Parents
- Sites
- Specific
- Access
- Content
- Filtering
- First
- Los
- Inc
- Users
- Surfwatch
founders
- Inc
- Acquired
- Friedland
- Jay
- May
- Spyglass
- Surfcontrol
- Websense
- Ann
- Software
- Bill
- Duvall

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For SurfWatch, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects SurfWatch with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

SurfWatch — Overview · splits 10 ⟂ 8

SurfWatch — Acquisition · splits 13 ⟂ 5

SurfWatch — Founders · splits 14 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

SurfWatch

Nodes18

Edges17

Triples42

Avg. degree1.89

Density0.111111

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around SurfWatch to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies & Technology, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — SurfWatch · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout