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The founders shut down the Neeva search engine.
The business of the company was not doing well.
ChatGPT was meeting the challenge.
Neeva Shutdown: The founders of Neeva, a search engine considered to compete with Google Search, announced its closure on Saturday. The co-founders behind this search engine were Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, who were former employees of Google’s advertising department. In a blog post announcing the shutdown, Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan wrote that convincing users to pay for a better experience is more difficult than convincing them to use a new search. He said that due to the low number of users, it had become difficult to run this business.
Privacy focused search engine
When Niva was launched in 2019, just before the start of the Corona pandemic, it was seen as a promising competitor to Google. Neeva was introduced as an ad-free and privacy-focused search engine. For the first three months, it could be used for free, but after that users had to pay $4.95.
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Raghunathan said in a blog post on Saturday, “We found that building a search engine is one thing and convincing users of the need to switch to a better alternative is an entirely different thing. He told that it is really difficult to explain to the users what is the difference between a search engine and a browser.
ChatGPT market down
Ramaswamy started Neeva in 2019 after leaving Google. At the time of launch, he had said that Google was focusing more on maintaining business growth rather than enhancing the user experience. Neeva is shutting down at a time when the large search engine companies have slowed business due to the rollout of ChatGPT by OpenAI. Chatbot ChatGPT created a storm last year. Since then, both Microsoft and Google have incorporated generative AI into their core products. Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, was launched just last week.
According to the blog post, going forward, Neeva will be using generative AI and language model use cases going forward. Neeva.com and its consumer search product will be shutting down in the next few weeks. The company said that it will refund users’ Niva subscription money and delete all user data.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : May 22, 2023, 19:53 IST
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