Neeva (search engine with a privacy and AI focus) is shutting down

Re:Neeva (search engine with a privacy and AI focus) is shut... by sshine on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:59AM (#36018831)

It matters to me because I believe the results are organically rated, i.e. nobody paid my search provider directly for top results.

With Google you become used to skip the first paid results that visually differ every so slightly — so much so that less technically inclined people, when I observe them, will click the paid results not knowing the difference.

I believe that, currently, Kagi is not building a profile of me based on my searches.

Basically, if I’m searching for something, and I’m not looking to buy something, the search is a lot more honest and a lot less stressful.

Ads on other sites can be adblocked, this is orthogonal; you can block ads on Google, but I just don’t trust that the algorithms are in my best interest, because I didn’t pay for anything.

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Re:Neeva (search engine with a privacy and AI focus) is shut... by easytiger on Sunday May 21, 2023 @04:43AM (#36019020)

How does any of that effect the fact that the results will probably be the same, taking you to the same page as bing or google, which in turn are ad supported?

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Re:Neeva (search engine with a privacy and AI focus) is shut... by NerdiDotOrg on Sunday May 21, 2023 @05:57AM (#36019380)

Personally I always click the ads so people get charged for them and it reduces their CRO, which may cause them to not pay Google for more ads.

Then I find my result

That said. I have used Google less than 20x since subscribing to GPT4. AI killed Google for me and I've been using it for half my life.

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