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https://neeva.com/ https://neeva.com/ It's not free but they aren't in the business of building marketing profiles, only for improving the science of search.

by mikece 4y ago

Terretta 4y ago
> they aren't in the business of building marketing profiles I am a paying subscriber to neeva since the start. This is the about page: Neeva was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Raghunathan (ex-VP of Monetization at YouTube). They met in the early days of search ads at Google, and came up with the idea for Neeva over hikes and coffee. Both of those jobs are about marketing profiles. The "visionary investors" include the master of all business profiles: Reid Hoffman - Greylock partner. Investor, entrepreneur, strategist. Co-Founder of Linkedin and founding team PayPal. Investor: Airbnb, Facebook, Zynga. BS Stanford, MA Oxford. Initially, it seemed evident they were optimizing search for products. It seemed evident the business model was to empower consumers to find products and trust the search that helped them do that. Now it's not clear to me what they're up to, and I can't tell what the business model is. I'm not really buying the privacy marketing angle, like, at all. Still the best general engine for product search though I rarely use it over Kagi which I also pay for.
- mikece 4y ago
  I had not heard of Kagi but I will check it out.
- jiveturkey 4y ago
  yup, neeva is sus. they invested a lot of dough into a useless NFT search. right before NFTs collapsed. Regardless of the collapse it was a dumb idea. and it tells me a lot about the company. (not just the web3 angle -- agnostic about that actually.) there is no way you rage quit against ads, as an SVP ads at Google, and also bring a VP of monetization with you. it's not that they are evil in disguise. i very much doubt that. but there is also no way they "fight for the user". When your mission statement is a lie ("Our mission is to serve our users, and only our users."), you have a problem.

https://neeva.com/ https://neeva.com/ It's not free but they aren't in the business of building marketing profiles, only for improving the science of search.

by mikece 4y ago

https://neeva.com/ https://neeva.com/ It's not free but they aren't in the business of building marketing profiles, only for improving the science of search.

Terretta 4y ago

> they aren't in the business of building marketing profiles I am a paying subscriber to neeva since the start. This is the about page: Neeva was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Raghunathan (ex-VP of Monetization at YouTube). They met in the early days of search ads at Google, and came up with the idea for Neeva over hikes and coffee. Both of those jobs are about marketing profiles. The "visionary investors" include the master of all business profiles: Reid Hoffman - Greylock partner. Investor, entrepreneur, strategist. Co-Founder of Linkedin and founding team PayPal. Investor: Airbnb, Facebook, Zynga. BS Stanford, MA Oxford. Initially, it seemed evident they were optimizing search for products. It seemed evident the business model was to empower consumers to find products and trust the search that helped them do that. Now it's not clear to me what they're up to, and I can't tell what the business model is. I'm not really buying the privacy marketing angle, like, at all. Still the best general engine for product search though I rarely use it over Kagi which I also pay for.

mikece 4y ago
I had not heard of Kagi but I will check it out.
jiveturkey 4y ago
yup, neeva is sus. they invested a lot of dough into a useless NFT search. right before NFTs collapsed. Regardless of the collapse it was a dumb idea. and it tells me a lot about the company. (not just the web3 angle -- agnostic about that actually.) there is no way you rage quit against ads, as an SVP ads at Google, and also bring a VP of monetization with you. it's not that they are evil in disguise. i very much doubt that. but there is also no way they "fight for the user". When your mission statement is a lie ("Our mission is to serve our users, and only our users."), you have a problem.