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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by NelsonMinar on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:41AM (#29393309)
Neeva is worth looking at. I recently switched to it exclusively for a week and found it as good as Google for 90% of what I do. (FWIW, previous attempts doing this with Bing or DuckDuckGo last about a day before I get so mad I switch back.)

Right now Neeva seems very good at navigational queries, which I do 90% of the time. It's still not as good at deep research queries for obscure things. Probably related: Neeva is relying on Bing for a big chunk of their queries. But they are building their own index.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by freediver on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:01AM (#29393566)
Neeva has the right business model (search as a product) which helps align interests. On the other hand some of their reasoning around the business execution left much to be desired:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/pol41p/comm...

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by mpalczewski on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:45PM (#29397245)
Just tried this, even signed up. Immediately they started force feeding me "news". Looks like they added me to some (daily!) mailing list. It looks like more of the same, but this time you pay for it.
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by AlexCoventry on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:50AM (#29393440)
Yeah, I tried Neeva for a few days, but it was slowing me down.
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