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As ChatGPT hype hits fever pitch, Neeva launches its generative AI search engine internationally

Challenger search engine Neeva is bringing its generative AI search engine to international markets as the ChatGPT hype continues.
CNBC

Neeva founder: AI will have a lot of impact on daily human life

Sridhar Ramaswamy, a former Google executive and co-founder of search start-up Neeva, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the ethics behind artificial intelligence and its application.
BBC News

Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine

An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday.
Bloomberg Technology

Concerns Around ChatGPT

Neeva CEO and Co-Founder Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss a report from OpenAI, Stanford and Georgetown about propaganda and hacking risks surrounding ChatGPT.
The Washington Post

Microsoft confirms ‘multibillion-dollar’ investment in OpenAI

Buzzy AI tools like ChatGPT could be coming soon to a workplace near you, as Microsoft makes a big bet on artificial intelligence.
The Economist

Is Google’s 20-year dominance of search in peril?

ChatGPT-like tools could disrupt a lucrative business.
Sky News

'Google it' no more? How AI could change the way we search the web

The rapid rise of ChatGPT has accelerated an AI arms race that could change the way we search the web. As Google looks to its past for inspiration and Microsoft makes a multibillion dollar bet, could there still be room for someone new to make an impression?
Forbes

The New AI Wars Begin As Microsoft Announces ChatGPT Integration With Bing And Edge

Microsoft and OpenAI will be integrating new generative AI features in both its search engine and its web browser.
Axios

AI rockets ahead in vacuum of U.S. regulation

Thanks to ChatGPT, AI is getting fast-tracked by tech companies way ahead of efforts to establish rules and guide rails.
Bloomberg Opinion

Google Faces a Serious Threat From ChatGPT

Neeva is planning to roll out its own generative search feature that can summarize webpages, with footnotes, in the coming months.
The Vergecast

The politics and laws changing tech in the US

The Verge's David Pierce tries out Neeva's Bias Buster, an attempt to get people out of their echo chambers and show them new information in its search engine.
Freakonomics

Is Google Getting Worse?

It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?
The New York Times

A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up

“Neeva is a search engine that looks for information on the web as well as personal files like emails and other documents. It will not show any advertisements and it will not collect or profit from user data.”
Time

Neeva Named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2021

Developed by a team of former Google employees, Neeva offers private, ad-free search. Since launching, it has garnered loads of positive reviews.
Inc

Would You Pay for Ad-Free Search? Former Head of Google Ads Says the Results Are Worth It

Search--and online experience in general--is bad and getting worse. That's the premise behind Neeva.
Fortune

He ran Google’s advertising arm. Now he’s building a search engine that cuts out ads

“Perhaps in the ultimate rebellion against his former employer, Sridhar Ramaswamy, once head of Google’s $115b advertising arm, has founded a new search engine that neither shows ads nor profits from user data.”
Forbes

After Building Google’s Advertising Business, This Founder Is Creating An Ad-Free Alternative

“Neeva users will pay...to get the search results they want rather than what advertisers want them to see.”
Sway

Sway

Would You Give Up Google for This?
The New York Times

A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business

A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.

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Gizmodo

This Ad-Free Google Search Alternative Is Actually Worth Using

After being rolled out to paying subscribers last year, Neeva's now free to download for anyone who's sick of ads in their searches.
Fast Company

Now Neeva’s ad-free Google search alternative has a free version

The search engine from ex-Googlers would still like you to pay. But it thinks it’ll be easier to make the sale to users who have lived with the product.
Inc

Would You Pay for Ad-Free Search? Former Head of Google Ads Says the Results Are Worth It

Search--and online experience in general--is bad and getting worse. That's the premise behind Neeva.
Time

Neeva Named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2021

Developed by a team of former Google employees, Neeva offers private, ad-free search. Since launching, it has garnered loads of positive reviews.
Search Engine Land

Neeva’s ‘FastTap Search’ feature presents direct links instead of a results page

Named “FastTap Search,” the feature allows users to bypass traditional search engine results pages and head directly to a site via the list of links generated based on the query.
Digital Content Next

[Op-Ed] The revenue model for search is broken. So are the results.

When the search business no longer relies on advertisers for revenue, it gets the freedom to dream up new ideas and build the type of search experience that couldn’t exist before.
Fast Company

Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers

Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan helped turn Google into an ad giant. Now they’re starting over with a service whose only customers are its users.
Protocol

How an ex-Googler is building the future of search

Neeva's pitch is pretty simple: It's search without the ads. It's a cleaner, nicer-looking system, and one that doesn't try to game users into clicking on things they didn't want.
CNBC

Former Google executive launches anti-Google search engine

Sridhar Ramaswamy, former Google Ads SVP and Neeva CEO, joins ‘Tech Check’ to discuss how his subscription-based search engine which will take on Google and makes the case for why people would pay for search.
Marketplace

The founder of a new ad-free search engine bets people will pay for privacy

Neeva, founded by former Google executives, will charge $4.95 per month. Sridhar Ramaswamy says the project could not have been attempted at his former company.
Wired

A Google Alum Wants to Make Search Pure Again

Giants like Facebook and Google have long resisted the concept of paying newspapers and information services they link to or include in feeds, but Neeva is willing to share income with partners.
Business Insider

Neeva is readying a July launch and pledging to share 20% of its revenue with publishers

Neeva says it will commit to sharing "at least 20%" of its revenue with content creators, offering payouts when their content directly answers a user's search query.
Reuters

Search engine startup Neeva to pay Quora, Medium for results

Neeva said it would share at least 20% of its sales with content partners such as Quora and Medium in another break from search giant Google, which for years has faced criticism for not remunerating publishers.
Fast Company

Google’s former ad chief is challenging its search engine monopoly

We see our long-term responsibility in supporting the monetization of long-tail content in ways that don’t all completely depend on ads.
The Telegraph

The ex-Google chiefs turning their back on ad-heavy search engines

The goal is to create a deeply personal search engine that can trawl through emails and other files to provide the most relevant information.
Forbes

After Building Google’s Advertising Business, This Founder Is Creating An Ad-Free Alternative

“Neeva users will pay...to get the search results they want rather than what advertisers want them to see.”
Financial Times

Search engine start-ups try to take on Google

“...Neeva’s most radical departure from the Google playbook is that it charges a subscription, promising fewer ads and greater privacy.”
The Information

Google’s Antitrust Trifecta: The Information’s Tech Briefing

“Sridhar Ramaswamy, sees an opportunity—he is developing a search engine that will be ad-free and focused on giving people the best results.”
Reuters

United States vs Google vindicates old antitrust gripes from Microsoft

“Neeva is developing a paid, privacy-focused search engine … ‘We hope the DOJ’s actions will create a more equal playing field for search apps like Neeva that want to create real options for customers.’”
Tech Monitor

Google antitrust case could topple ‘monoculture’ in search, says former ad chief

“Part of my reason for starting Neeva was I did not want this very important function [search] to become a monoculture,’ says Ramaswamy.”
The Times

Davids take on the Google Goliath

“His [Sridhar Ramaswamy’s] bet is that an engine spitting out ad-free results — with other features, such as an ability to scan personal data stored on, say, your laptop — will be a compelling alternative.”
The New York Times

A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company With a Start-Up

“Neeva is a search engine that looks for information on the web as well as personal files like emails and other documents. It will not show any advertisements and it will not collect or profit from user data.”
Fortune

He ran Google’s advertising arm. Now he’s building a search engine that cuts out ads

“Perhaps in the ultimate rebellion against his former employer, Sridhar Ramaswamy, once head of Google’s $115b advertising arm, has founded a new search engine that neither shows ads nor profits from user data.”
DKB

The Next Google

Neeva: The Everything Engine. No matter what you’re looking for, or where it is, Neeva will help you find it, often with only one click.
The Hill

Competition is not a click away; the consumer welfare standard is failing consumers

The consumer welfare standard has really become a “corporate welfare standard,” paving the way for a handful of companies to insulate themselves from competition and amass unprecedented market share and power over our daily lives.
Business Insider

Why search sucks

Neeva, the Google competitor run by Ramaswamy, promises an ad-free experience that will search both the web and information on your own computer while protecting your privacy — for a subscription fee
AdWeek

In Four Months, Neeva has Grown to Half a Million Monthly Active Users

The company opened up its free service to everyone last year and introduced its premium options in January 2022. Now, it has over half a million monthly active users, and since January has been growing active users more than 20% per month.
The Telegraph

I’ve seen a Google-free future and it’s like breathing clean air

Those already in the Neeva club are enthusiastic, and I can see why. The absence of the tricksy ads was like being catapulted to an Alpine retreat – after years in the urban smog, you forget how fresh air feels.
DKB

Interview with Neeva | DKB

What differentiates Neeva from Google? Three things: 1) Control over the ranking of sources in your search results. 2) Transparency about these sources. 3) Deep integrations to bring rich previews and answers directly to you.
Fast Company

[Op-Ed] With Google dominating search, the internet needs crawl neutrality

Regulators and policymakers need to step in if they care for competition in search. The market needs crawl neutrality, similar to net neutrality.
Search Engine Journal Show

Building a Better Search Engine: Lessons From Neeva’s CEO

“No ads” means Neeva doesn’t have an incentive to collect data on its users, making it the only search engine on the market that’s both ad-free with a privacy option.
Axios

Former Google exec: Antitrust enforcement is key to online privacy

Imagine one company in charge of supplying water for the entire planet... a for-profit company. Search and access to information is as basic, and you have one company in charge of this.
Tech Crunch

Founded by Google’s former head of ads, Neeva brings its ad-free search engine to Europe

Neeva, an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business, is about to land in Europe.
BBC News

Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine

An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday.
Bloomberg Technology

Concerns Around ChatGPT

Neeva CEO and Co-Founder Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss a report from OpenAI, Stanford and Georgetown about propaganda and hacking risks surrounding ChatGPT.
Sky News

'Google it' no more? How AI could change the way we search the web

The rapid rise of ChatGPT has accelerated an AI arms race that could change the way we search the web. As Google looks to its past for inspiration and Microsoft makes a multibillion dollar bet, could there still be room for someone new to make an impression?
Marketplace

Can AI chatbots like ChatGPT compete with Google search?

Google currently holds more than 90% of the search market, but management is reportedly sounding the alarms about AI-powered chatbots.
Financial Times

How will Google solve its AI conundrum?

Microsoft throws down direct challenge to search giant with multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI

Podcasts

The Vergecast

The politics and laws changing tech in the US

The Verge's David Pierce tries out Neeva's Bias Buster, an attempt to get people out of their echo chambers and show them new information in its search engine.
Freakonomics

Is Google Getting Worse?

It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?
Search Engine Journal Show

Search Engine Journal Show

How Neeva is Creating A Search Experience Without Ads
Yext Talks

Yext Talks

Search Wars: Sridhar Ramaswamy
Masters of Scale

Masters of Scale

How to scale tech responsibly, with former Google ad chief and Neeva founder Sridhar Ramaswamy
Invest Like the Best

Invest Like the Best

The Past, Present, and Future of Search
Problem Solvers

Problem Solvers

How Do You Compete Against the Biggest Companies?
Sway

Sway

Would You Give Up Google for This?
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Future of Search — with Sridhar Ramaswamy
DealMakers Podcast

DealMakers Podcast with Alejandro Cremades

Sridhar Ramaswamy On Becoming Google Ads Boss And Then Raising $77 Million
Big Technology Podcast

Big Technology Podcast

Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
The Room Podcast

The Room Podcast

Sridhar Ramaswamy of Neeva
Recode Decode

Recode Decode with Kara Swisher

Your search history is incredibly personal
Danny in the Valley

Danny in the Valley

Neeva's Sridhar Ramaswamy: 'We can do better than Google'
Technovation

Technovation Podcast with Peter High

Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy
Secrets to Win Big

‎Secrets to Win Big With Arjun Sen

Create a Center of Excellence with VIP Guest Sridhar Ramaswamy
Our Own Devices

Our Own Devices with Nandagopal Rajan

What an alternative to Google can look like
econlib

Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva - Econlib

Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that world comes with a hidden cost–search results that distort what we find and serve advertisers rather than searchers.

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