Neeva, “a good and competitive search engine”

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Neeva has shocked the tech industry by announcing the closure of its search engine . This company was a close competitor and had the opportunity to challenge Google's supremacy as a search engine, but it finally announces its closure.

According to The Information report , the company has announced its transition to artificial intelligence and there is a possibility that it will be acquired by Snowflake . However, for the most part, there seems to be doubts about the success of this transition.

Creating search engines is difficult
“Building search engines is hard,” Neeva co-founders Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan said in a blog post announcing the closure.

Neeva was started with a mission to bring search back to its users , having gained extensive experience in the search and advertising space over more than ten years. The Neeva team strongly believed in creating a search model that prioritized the interests of users over advertisers , thus offering a private and ad-free experience.

Building search engines, however, is proving to be a considerable challenge . Neeva's team members argue that it is even harder to take on large organizations with unlimited resources like Google . Neeva's team consisted of just 50 people.

Despite these obstacles, they say they were able to overcome them and build a search infrastructure from scratch.


“In early 2022, we clearly saw the impact that generative AI and LLMs would have. We embarke india number screening d on an ambitious effort to seamlessly integrate LLMs into our search stack ,” the Neeva team says of their search engine. “We rallied the Neeva team around the vision of creating an answer engine. We are proud to be the first search engine to deliver real-time, cited AI answers to most queries earlier this year.”

Neeva was also presented as a paid product, as the company sought to explore a business model for search that was different from advertising and surveillance.

As the co-founders put it in their blog post, “Contrary to popular belief, convincing users to pay for an improved experience turned out to be a less difficult challenge compared to getting them to try a new search engine in the first place .” However, combined with a challenging economic environment, Neeva couldn’t find a viable business path forward.

The future of Neeva
Neeva's search engine will cease operations on June 2. Neeva will now "focus on a new area," which appears to be related to LLM (Language Model) and possibly linked to the Snowflake acquisition. The company will proceed to refund users for the unused portion of their Neeva subscriptions and will completely delete all user data.

“We want to thank the Neeva team for their time, effort and dedication in building Neeva. It has been an honor and a privilege to take on this challenge with all of you and we couldn’t have chosen a better set of friends and colleagues to be on this journey with,” they conclude on their blog .