Neeva was faster, simpler, and ad-free. But making something better than Google isn’t enough to beat Google.
  • JesterRaiin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Neeva!

    Jesus Christ, that was the biggest find for me in the last year, and the biggest blow to my online life, when it failed.

    What’s the worst is that it wasn’t the cost of the subscription that ruined it. They simply couldn’t reach enough people to build a required fanbase… Damn…

  • stirkenbok@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Damn, I’d never heard of Neeva. A shame that they closed down, reading this had me wanting to switch.

    • enu@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same, would have definitely checked them out. Sounds like they did a really bad job at getting the word out there that they even existed.

      I’ve been using duckduckgo instead of Google for a few years now and love it. I’ve gotten used to the shortcuts in it now and probably couldn’t go back if I wanted to haha

      • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Kagi boasts about not spending money on marketing and I think that’s a little bit of PR bs, a little strategic, and a little because they probably don’t have a ton of money for it.

        Strategically, it let’s them grow more organically, through word of mouth, and probably in a more long-term sustainable way.

        I just started paying for it and I am so amazed at the quality of search results. I haven’t done a ton of A/B testing versus Google or bing but I’ve noticed that it’s a cleaner interace and I get to results way faster. I’m genuinely shocked too, because ecosia or duckduckgo always had me going back to Google to actually get the answer I needed 50%+ of the time. Those other searches just had shitty results. Kagi hasnt let me down at all. The results are either on par or vastly superior to Google.

        I will say that I more apt to check more results before I refine the search terms because they technically “cost”. Which is hilarious because I do the 300 search tier and I doubt I’d hit it. And if I did it’s literally a penny for additional searches. Just thought that was an interesting observation I made about my search habits.