A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google's dominance
A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Twitter: @lutherlowe . Threads: @imdavid...
Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 48% YoY to $623.6M, vs. $608M est., forecasts Q2 product revenue below est., and plans to acquire startup Neeva; SNOW drops 10%+
- Snowflake beat on the top and bottom lines for the fiscal first quarter, but it gave product revenue guidance that missed consensus estimates.
Sources: Snowflake is in advanced talks to acquire Neeva, possibly for AI tools to help companies search internal data; Neeva also shopped itself to Databricks
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Neeva, a $4.95/month ad-free search engine from two ex-Google executives, launches after raising $77.5M
Neeva, a $4.95/month ad-free search engine from two ex-Google executives, launches after raising $77.5M
Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan helped turn Google into an ad giant. Now they're starting over with a service whose only customers are its users. — A new search engine?
Neeva, which is developing an ad-free search engine to be funded by subscriptions, raises $40M, valuing it at $300M and bringing the total raised to $77.5M
even beyond existing giants and startups. https://www.forbes.com/... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Two Google veterans starting a company to compete with Google is why non competes culture of SV is so...
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits
Challengers such as Neeva bet on alternative approaches as tech giant faces regulatory scrutiny Tweets: @psb_dc , @martinsfp , @paulnemitz , @francesca_bria , and @aghose Tweets: Theo / @psb_dc : With...