{"id":164328,"date":"2023-05-21T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/neeva-the-would-be-google-competitor-is-shutting-down-its-search-engine"},"modified":"2023-05-21T08:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:25:02","slug":"neeva-the-would-be-google-competitor-is-shutting-down-its-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/neeva-the-would-be-google-competitor-is-shutting-down-its-search-engine","title":{"rendered":"Neeva, the would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neeva-the-would-be-google-competitor-is-shutting-down-its-search-engine3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve discovered that it is one thing to build a search engine, and an entirely different thing to convince regular users of the need to switch to a better choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neeva, which for a while looked like one of the startups with a real chance to challenge the supremacy of Google Search, announced on Saturday that it is shutting down its search engine. The company says it\u2019s pivoting to AI \u2014 and may be acquired by Snowflake, The Information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding search engines is hard,\u201d Neeva co-founders Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan wrote in a blog post announcing the shutdown.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Neeva was ahead of Google on a lot of things in search \u2014 but still couldn\u2019t make users switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve discovered that it is one thing to build a search engine, and an entirely different thing to convince regular users of the need to switch to a better choice.\u201d Neeva, which for a while looked like one of the startups with a real chance to challenge the supremacy of Google Search, announced on Saturday [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}