{"id":168392,"date":"2023-07-26T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/how-a-start-up-built-the-search-engine-of-the-future-and-then-died"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:29:24","slug":"how-a-start-up-built-the-search-engine-of-the-future-and-then-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/how-a-start-up-built-the-search-engine-of-the-future-and-then-died","title":{"rendered":"How a start-up built the search engine of the future \u2014 and then died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-start-up-built-the-search-engine-of-the-future-and-then-died2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. So how come you\u2019ve never heard of Neeva?<\/p>\n<p>Sridhar Ramaswamy didn\u2019t leave Google to build another search engine. At least not at first. At the close of his 15-year tenure at Google, Ramaswamy was running the company\u2019s entire advertising division, overseeing more than 10,000 people \u2014 he knew better than most exactly how much work it took to do search well.<\/p>\n<p>You almost can\u2019t overstate how dominant Google is in search. Most studies put Google at about 90 percent of the global search market, and that number has been steadily climbing for 20 years. Google is the default search\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Neeva was faster, simpler, and ad-free. But making something better than Google isn\u2019t enough to beat Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. So how come you\u2019ve never heard of Neeva? Sridhar Ramaswamy didn\u2019t leave Google to build another search engine. At least not at first. At the close of his 15-year tenure at Google, Ramaswamy was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168392","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=168392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}