Neeva: Ad-free search engine shuts down – Yahoo News
Neeva, an advert- and tracker-free search engine founded by a former Google ad exec, says it will shut down.
The search engine asked users to pay rather than be shown ads but struggled to attract subscribers.
Recently, it also started showing artificial-intelligence-generated answers to searches.
Now, the company says it is looking to build on the expertise it developed to provide those answers and is exploring other AI businesses opportunities.
It will close on 2 June, it says, and users will be able to receive a refund for the unused portion of their subscriptions.
‘Better choice’
Neeva was created by Sridhar Ramaswamy, who worked at Google for 16 years and ran its ad business. He told BBC News the technology sector had become “exploitative” of people’s data, something he no longer wanted to be a part of.
But he and co-founder Vivek Raghunathan have now blogged: “Throughout this journey, we’ve discovered that it is one thing to build a search engine and an entirely different…
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