Neeva was an internet search engine that emphasized protecting searchers' privacy.[1] It utilized various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it used the help of its partners and its own crawler.[2]
Type of site | Search engine |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 2 June 2023 |
| Founder(s) | Sridhar Ramaswamy, Vivek Raghunathan |
| Current status | Inactive |
The company was based in Mountain View, California and had 25 employees as of June 19, 2020.[3]
History
editNeeva was founded in 2019 by Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan. Neeva had raised $77.5m from investors.[4]
In 2023, the co-founders announced the shutdown of the search engine on June 2.[5] According to them, the main reason for that decision was how hard it was to persuade normal users to make the switch. They thanked customers and announced that they would be compensating users for the unused portion of Neeva accounts and reallocating their tools and technologies to other industries.[6]
In May 2023, Snowflake announced the acquisition of Neeva, for $185.4M in cash.[7] This was to accelerate the search in the Cloud through Artificial Intelligence.[8]
Features
editSearch results
editNeeva's search results were a compilation of various partners including Yelp, Ignite, Intrinio, Microsoft Bing, and its own Web crawler.[2] Weather information from The Weather Channel.[3] Maps data from Apple Inc.[3] Neeva also allowed customers to link personal items which could then be searched.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Neeva". Neeva. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ a b Michael (2021-05-25). "Where Neeva Gets its Search Results". Archived from the original on 2022-05-23.
- ^ a b c Wakabayashi, Daisuke (2020-06-19). "A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine". BBC News. 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Neeva: Ad-free search engine shuts down". BBC News. 22 May 2023.
- ^ "Neeva, co-founded by a former Google exec, to shut down its consumer search product and focus on A.I." CNBC. 20 May 2023.
- ^ "SNOW : 10-Q Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)".
- ^ "Snowflake acquires Neeva to add generative AI-based search to Data Cloud". 24 May 2023.
- ^ "The Next Google | DKB". dkb.io. Retrieved 2022-11-30.