It makes no sense that this article writes off DuckDuckGo as a similar offering and compares it more to Startpage. DDG and Neeva are both based on Bing, and bo

It makes no sense that this article writes off DuckDuckGo as a similar offering and compares it more to Startpage. DDG and Neeva are both based on Bing, and both integrate (or plan to integrate) many other search sources. Startpage only provides Google results supplemented by Wikipedia for some queries. The one advantage Neeva might have is that it integrates personal services as search sources (like gmail and dropbox). Personally that has never been a pain point for me though. A few months back I started working on a search engine (in my sig) based on the hypothesis that a better search engine can be built by curating vertical specific sources to provide higher relevance for niche search topics. I truly believe a federated data source search engine will be the future, but time will tell.