The new search engine Neeva is launched in Spain. Aiming to compete with Google and provide users with honest web search results: no tracking, no ads, and no affiliate links.
Neeva puts users at the center and gives them the control to personalize their content search experiences on the Internet. By avoiding ads and advertisers, Neeva eliminates the corporate bias that has plagued the traditional search experience. In fact, Neeva’s only goal is to create a search engine that delivers the best results in the fastest possible way.
Respect for the privacy of users
This new search engine offers honest results and allows users to select their information sources, such as media, shopping sites, software engineering, travel, among others, based on their personal preferences, instead of what the advertisers. Neeva respects users’ privacy by blocking third-party tracking, without taking advantage of user data.
In addition, Spanish users will soon have access to NeevaAI, which will harness the power of Artificial Intelligence to offer an experience that combines the best of ChatGPT with the authority and timeliness of a cutting-edge search engine. NeevaAI provides a single synthesized answer with sources linked and grouped from the most relevant websites for a query. References and citations are embedded directly into the response, allowing users to determine the authenticity and reliability of cited sources. In addition, NeevaAI offers current information by crawling hundreds of millions of pages a day. By combining AI with Neeva’s internal search, results are fast, timely, and relevant.
Neeva’s European expansion follows a successful $40 million Series B funding round in 2021. Founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (former SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Raghunathan (former VP of YouTube Monetization), Neeva reinvents the web search of the future, challenging Google’s web search dominance.
Neeva is a user platform focused on private and transparent searches; versus a search engine that serves advertisers. The internet should be a private corner of the web instead of a barrage of ads, SEO spam, and irrelevant information. We’re reinventing Internet search and giving users control over sources; through accurate and clear results, as well as private and personalized experiences without the influence of corporate bias, which are tracked on the web.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Neeva.
New search approach
Neeva offers a freemium model that includes a private, ad-free free basic service along with a premium subscription model that includes additional features like VPN and password manager. Neeva operates its own independent search, returning lightning-fast results with high levels of accuracy., from an index of billions of web pages. In addition, Neeva allows users to connect personal apps like email, Dropbox, Slack, Figma and others, making it easy to search through your most important personal documents while maintaining strict privacy controls.
“Google has dominated the search engine market, holding more than 90% of the market share. Neeva will challenge this supremacy by creating a better search and browsing experience for users.”explains Ramaswamy. “Users must have the control of their search and web experience, rather than letting a company decide what information they see. The ad-supported model of the Internet has created wildly misaligned incentives that have enriched tech monopolies and advertisers; while exploiting the privacy and personal data of users. It’s time to get a new search approach that puts people first.”
To date, search alternatives to big tech have mostly offered greater privacy, but at the cost of lower search quality. Neeva is unique in creating its independent search (crawling, indexing, and serving at scale) and ad-free, giving it the freedom to design user-first features with the sole goal of delivering the best results in the most efficient way possible. , in keeping with the privacy that is expected and required in today’s Internet experience.
Neeva is growing rapidly, with over 1 million unique users since its US launch in 2021. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Greylock Ventures, Inovia Capital, and Neythri Futures Fund. The company has raised more than $80 million from its investors.