>It failed because no one cares about that enough You say that like there aren’t numerous other competitors in the space: DuckDuckGo, Kagi, Brave, searx, qwant

>It failed because no one cares about that enough You say that like there aren’t numerous other competitors in the space: DuckDuckGo, Kagi, Brave, searx, qwant, startpage, etc, etc. These services provide both paid and ad based models. Neeva failed because of its own issues. I am in their target market and I had never even heard of them until they shut down. Starting any business is extremely challenging, one failing doesn’t imply there was no market.