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Google is the most well known search engine, but there is very little research on how other search providers affect RL outcomes. Turns out Exa reached higher performance with 70% l…

exa-d is our internal data processing framework that stores the web in S3. It helps deal with the complexity of data at (web) scale using specific design decisions like declarative…

stay tuned!

https://exa.ai/blog/websets-evals

Thanks Artem! That makes sense to specialize for the biggest customers. Yes, a lot of problems in the world would be improved by better search, including dating.

This might be possible if you specify geospatial location as an enriched column. The visualization of it as a map though is not supported in the UI, but can be built by giving an L…

Because Google makes money from ads, they're not actually optimized to build the best general search engine in the world, they're optimized to build the search engine that makes th…

There aren't currently any vision LLMs involved. But if you asked for image links, it'd probably find you something!

Thanks for letting us know - made a Linear ticket

Mission of Exa has always been to build much better web search. The evolution has been: - 2022: Consumer-facing embeddings search (back when we were known as Metaphor) - 2023: Web …

Thanks for the support - we're getting hug of death though so please bear with us while we scale up!

Yup exactly! And we expose this as a regular search API as well as in the Websets product.

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah we'd love to make the product as accessible and cheap as possible, but as of state of AI costs of 2025, it's a very expensive product to run and so we…

Hm! I'll try this out. Sometimes info like price are hard to parse out because the data may be on ecommerce-style websites that have many crawling protections

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Thanks! Let us know how you find it :)

By cruft cleaner, do you mean cleaning the HTML well? Right now, we do 2 things to help with that, a pretty robust parsing stack as well as a "summaries" feature that returns an LL…

Thanks!

Not a pivot - Websets is just a new product! Mission of Exa has always been to build much better web search. The evolution has been: - 2022: Consumer-facing embeddings search (back…

We're a startup, so most of our resources go towards use cases that our users care most about. So the search should work best for - people, companies, papers, high quality written …

We render JS and then parse pages, but that process will definitely parse out Adobe Analytics tags unfortunately. Noting this though!

Hey HN! We’re Will and Jeff from Exa ( https://exa.ai ). We recently launched Exa Websets, an embeddings-powered search engine designed to return exactly what you’re asking for. Yo…

Hey HN! I'm Will, founder of Exa (YC21 - https://exa.ai ). Today we're opening up Websets, a search engine that finds massive lists of correct results given complex queries. For ex…