About a year ago, I started working on a profile of Neeva, a search startup with some big and interesting ideas. Before I finished it, Neeva shut down. Figuring out why became the story: https://www.theverge.com/23802382/search-engine-google-neeva-android
How to build a better search engine than Google

Two ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. Neeva was faster, simpler, and ad-free. But building the tech, it turned out, was the easy part.

The Verge
@davidpierce really interesting article. Its a shame I can’t test Neeva for myself. When I heard about it at first, I thought “a paid search engine doesn’t make any sense when I get it for free”. Then I thought about it and changed my mind but then they announced they were shutting down