Google's former advertising chief is making an ad-free search engine

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by guest, Jun 20, 2020.

  1. guest

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    Google's former advertising chief is making an ad-free search engine
    June 20, 2020
    https://www.techspot.com/news/85712-google-former-advertising-chief-making-ad-free-search.html
    A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up
    Neeva: A new way to search that works just for you
     
  2. SAustn2

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    No mention of privacy? Unless it's better than Duckduckgo I'll stay put.
     
  3. Rasheed187

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    Cool, will check this one out.

    Privacy is important, but usability and good search results even more, I really didn't like DuckDuckGo, it loads slowly on my system, that was quite a turn-off for me.
     
  4. SAustn2

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    That's cool, I do seldom use google, I had to do a reverse image search to find out the person that was chatting with me was a catfish. So I can't always slam Google, some of their tools are pretty nice :).
     
  5. Rasheed187

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    Never actually used that feature, but I see it all the the time on MTV's Catfish. BTW, here is another site that you can use: https://tineye.com
     
  6. guest

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    Search engine startup asks users to be the customer, not the product
    Rival privacy-focused search engine Startpage is not impressed
    June 29, 2020

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...ng-vp-starts-a-subscriber-only-search-engine/
     
  7. guest

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    Would you pay for an ad-free search engine?
    July 19, 2020
    https://www.androidauthority.com/neeva-ad-free-search-engine-1137419/
     
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    I can imagine their conversation on the hike, ending in "We'll make millions".
     
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    I will still stick with ddg I don't really see too many ads there, and for me it loads very well in Firefox, as for my privacy I'm not willing to pay extra for vpn's, my internet provider charges too much for it's true value anyway guess that's the way it is with satellite, no alternatives out in the country. I really don't have privacy anyway with the current state of government snooping. And thank you for the link Rasheed187 :) .
     
  11. guest

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    Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers
    June 29, 2021
    https://www.fastcompany.com/9065071...le-alternative-privacy-sridhar-ramaswamy-tech
     
  12. Rasheed187

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    I seriously don't see how this will become a success. I don't think people mind ads that much as long as the search results are good.
     
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    Going Google-free: Neeva gives search result control and context back to the user
    November 8, 2021
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/going...results-control-and-context-back-to-the-user/
     
  14. guest

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    Neeva search engine launches in Germany, France and the United Kingdom
    By Martin Brinkmann - October 6, 2022
    Neeva: Neeva Launches in Europe
     
  15. Rasheed187

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    Not sure what to think, why don't they just launch it worldwide? And I'm not impressed by the webpage design, it has this annoying lag when loading, similar to DuckDuckGo. That's why I always stayed with Google. So for now I'm very skeptical.
     
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