Neeva, also known as a While looking like one of the startup companies with a Real chance to The supremacy of Google Search announced that on Saturday it was launching a new website. is shutting down Its search engine. The company says it’s pivoting to AI — and may be acquired by Snowflake, The Information reported — but mostly seems to Believe it has failed
“Building search engines is hard,” Sridhar Raghunathan and Vivek Rakhaunathan, co-founders of Neeva, wrote an article in a blog post announcing the shutdown. (Ramaswamy, in particular is Neeva was a part of what made her seem promising — as the longtime head of Google’s ad business, few people are better equipped to Know how to Build and monetize your search engine than you thought possible is.) “But Neeva did that, they claimed.” The building was built a Good, competitive search engine. This was actually a lot ahead. Google In some ways, swapping 10 blue link for a More visual pages and emphasis on human-created content.
It was easy to build a search engine. “Throughout this journey, we’ve discovered that it is one thing to build a search engine, and an entirely different thing to convince regular users of the need to switch to a better choice,” Ramaswamy & Raghunathan continue.
It was easy to build a search engine
I’ve talked with Neeva’s co-founders several times over the last couple of years, and their list of grievances here is They’ve had a long-standing and well-founded claim. They’ve had to Take on the multi-billion dollar deals Google Signs to Make itself the default on all devices; the massive “are you sure you want to change?” Popups appear whenever you attempt to do something to Set a It’s difficult to find the default settings for your browser and search engine. is The Chrome Web Store is endless. Anybody trying? to Build your own a new search engine is fighting a Massive uphill struggle
Neeva also a The company tried to sell a paid-for product to It is a good idea to use a Search engine business models that are not ads or surveillance “Contrary to popular belief,” In a blog posting, the co-founders explained their decision. “convincing users to pay for a better experience was actually a less difficult problem compared to getting them to try a new search engine in the first place.” Add to that a tough economy, and Neeva simply couldn’t see a Business path ahead
This is the right time to do it is Nevado neevado neevado neevado neevado neevado nema? Neeva is shutting down Users are embracing search engines at a time when they may be experiencing the most positive growth in twenty years. Search engines are gaining popularity among users. increasingly fed up They are disappointed with the results and amount of ads they see. Google, and AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT have upended everyone’s idea about how to Use the internet to interact. Neeva wager on the development of this too. a Neeva AI is a large-scale language model-based AI system. is in many ways more useful than what you’ll get from Bing or Bard. But that wasn’t enough either.
This race is for the younger generation to Take a look at the following: down Google is Bing is still going strong, as usual to push hard to Brave is the way to gain market share. recently touted Now it runs entirely on its own stack. Businesses like you.com DuckDuckGo is also a contender. to AI and the need to rethink how search is done to do so. It looks as though it is going well so far Google’s only real competitor is, well, Google.
Neeva’s search engine will shut down Neeva will be launching on Tuesday, June 2nd. Neeva, as of June 2, will now be “shifting to a new area of focus,” What seems to be likely to LLM and Related to Snowflake has acquired Snowflake. Snowflake will refund users the portion of subscriptions that they have not used and delete all their data. “We are truly grateful to our community,” The co-founders have written. “and we are truly sorry that we aren’t able to continue to provide the search engine that you want and deserve.”
