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.

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@davidpierce good piece covering the breadth of US search companies and the proxies which build off of them, if you're interested in what's happening elsewhere, we're here 👋