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vivekraghunatha

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About vivekraghunatha

Co-founder Neeva. Neeva is ad-free, private search, deeply personal to you. We help our users find exactly what matters to them. Sign up at: www.neeva.co

Contact me at: vivek.raghunathan@gmail.com or vivek@neeva.co

Ex-VP of Eng, Google.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #34334706

    Decision by team to first iterate with users and make the system work really well in one region before expanding

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    Comment #34333768

    (co-founder here) a bit of a cheap shot :( ... We strive to earn our users trust every day. We read every piece of feedback that comes in and try to make the product better. At the…

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    Comment #34333694

    (co-founder) Actually, 1. you can just search on neeva.com w/o signing up for an account 2. If/when you sign up for an account, you can choose between our "free basic" (free) produ…

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    Comment #34333668

    (co-founder) Working hard to address.

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    Comment #34333235

    (co-founder) Thanks for reporting the rendering issue. We'll fix this.

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    Comment #34333229

    (co-founder here) We are working on a bunch of freshness improvements across the board (ranking, indexing, crawl) that should help with this. Thanks for the feedback and keep it co…

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    Comment #32214782

    (Other co-founder of Neeva) We wrote an op-ed last month in Fast Company re: the challenges of crawling at scale in today's world: https://www.fastcompany.com/90759792/with-google-…

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    Comment #31583137

    (Founder of Neeva here) Query-independent page and site signals like PageRank (or its site variants) have limited utility in a search ranker. Mostly, they are useful in weeding out…

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    Comment #30736697

    (Founder of Neeva here) On OP's question -- don't underestimate the power of defaults. Google owns Chrome and Android. Google pays Apple to be the default on Safari. Google pays Fi…

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    Comment #30736373

    (Founder of Neeva here) Appreciate the input and hear your frustration. This is a carryover from changes we made to introduce the free tier earlier in the quarter. We are making im…

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    Comment #30736348

    (Founder of Neeva here) I'd love for you to try us (www.neeva.com) and tell us what you think ... (either here or via the support button on the SRP)

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    Comment #30736328

    (Founder of Neeva) Eval for search engines is about as hard as ranking for search engines. You need rating templates, raters, querysets, tooling and lots of time and patience. Ther…

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    Comment #30736255

    (Founder of Neeva here) -- Chris -- I love the idea. Neeva does this in a contextually relevant manner to the intent of the query. For example, on health queries, we label all heal…

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    Comment #30686914

    (Founder of Neeva here) Colin -- huge congratulations on the 5B milestone. Crawling the web, building and serving a large index, and powering your own ranking is not for the faint …

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    Comment #30364819

    For sure, there's a bit of that. You would still agree w/ the point I'm making?

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    Comment #30362738

    Founder of @Neeva here. In my experience, this is mostly PR that will go nowhere -- these are efforts that are not structurally set up to succeed given the internal constraints at …