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As a Googler…way I see it, too big too quick too much google and wrong time. Launch a year later and you’re legit have some rocket fuel via LLMs to build someth
by refulgentis 3y ago
As a Googler…way I see it, too big too quick too much google and wrong time. Launch a year later and you’re legit have some rocket fuel via LLMs to build something new.
I never used it till it shut down, and it looks like about 70% of google to me. That’s great, but you gotta avoid the xoogler trap of rebuilding the 20% of google you want to fix as a startup.
- radlad 3y agoI agree - Neeva was just Google-that-you-pay-for, which might've worked as a niche... but then LLMs came out and afaik they didn't do anything to integrate with them. It was the wrong product at the wrong time.
- dpflan 3y agoFrom your statement, it seems reasonable to assume that the people and their experience are what Snowflake is actually acquiring. (Another comment here suspects a soft landing for investors as both companies are Sequoia backed.)
- refulgentis 3y agoWe're just free associating, only like 60 people know, I presume. And life just doesn't work like that, like, some of those 60 people will fervently believe one interpretation, another will believe in another. We'll know more in 5 years
- dpflan 3y agoTrue, just playing the speculation game.
- esafak 3y agoDo you mean integrate through a chatGPT plug-in, because they do have GPT-like answers, which they call "neevaAI"?
- jwithington 3y agoNeeva was the first search engine to have an LLM assistant that annotated where the result came from.
- dpflan 3y agoI think I follow, but then does that mean their product was an inferior substitute-able service for Google? What was the innovation that made them stand out more? I understand that information retrieval space has entered a new realm of hype-vs-reality so one cannot discount as you say the LLM rocket fuel they missed. But why did they miss it? It is happening right now and even open-source models may be sufficient for a search startup (or use OpenAI or Bard as a default for now until specializing themselves).