Is this a case of "it takes a thief to catch one"? Because looking at who is behind this, they seem to have more experience in abusing (rather than protecting) privacy and user rights.
Neeva Announces Public Availability of Its Ads Free, Private Search Engine
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#32There's no way to register this as the default search engine in iOS Safari. Anyone know which iOS browsers give you the freedom to do this?
I use Neeva with Firefox on iOS.
Some browsers on iOS (like Chrome and Firefox) will let you configure Neeva to be the default search engine. We also have our own iOS browser app that you can check out as well: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/neeva-browser-search-engine/id....
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer working on Neeva.
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#33Is this a case of "it takes a thief to catch one"? Because looking at who is behind this, they seem to have more experience in abusing (rather than protecting) privacy and user rights. https://neeva.com/about
Can you expand on this?
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#34 For those who have joined, I'm curious about the following query:
Are women better than men at limbo?
The results on Google[0] and Bing[1] are both entirely useless clickbait. I just want to know if women can bend back farther than men without falling over.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neeva is trying to do better than Bing. Also, Neeva does not do ads.
Another interesting difference (that I personally find to be one of the best features in Neeva) is the ability to connect apps. You can then search not only the public web, but also private data from your Slack, Github, Gdrive, Jira (etc) accounts. We're hard at work adding more integrations in the near future as well. Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Neeva
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop
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#36> Created by ex-Google execs Do you worry about any non compete or nondisclosure risks?
The folks who started this company and the folks who funded it did this due diligence many years ago. It's pretty clear Google is OK with this. Furthermore, if Google isn't OK with this, they're going to be locked in a battle with people who operated Google previously and know all of Google's tricks.
More importantly, Google knows they have to stay away because otherwise they are just making the fed's argument they are a monopoly.
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#37For those who have joined, I'm curious about the following query: Are women better than men at limbo? The results on Google[0] and Bing[1] are both entirely useless clickbait. I just want to know if women can bend back farther than men without falling over. 0. https://www.middleendian.com/limbogoogle.png 1. https://www.middleendian.com/limbobing.png
What do you want out of this query (yes, the SERPs are pretty bad)? I rewrote the query to [ who is best at limbo ] and got a much better result from Google.
But as soon as you add 'gender' to the query it switches to articles about being in 'gender limbo' which is't totally surprising.
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#38"Sign up and get three months free, then only $4.95 per month."
I can't believe this, but I may have reached the point where I'd be willing to pay for search that isn't shit.
Oddly I was thinking the same thing. If it de-ranks sites with a lot of affiliate links I might do it. Most of my searches on Google and Bing result in affiliate advertiser blog spam. It's terrible.
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#39There's no way to register this as the default search engine in iOS Safari. Anyone know which iOS browsers give you the freedom to do this?
It doesn't seem possible. Without integration into my devices this seems like a non-starter for me. I don't want an app just for search.
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#40For those who have joined, I'm curious about the following query: Are women better than men at limbo? The results on Google[0] and Bing[1] are both entirely useless clickbait. I just want to know if women can bend back farther than men without falling over. 0. https://www.middleendian.com/limbogoogle.png 1. https://www.middleendian.com/limbobing.png
What do you want out of this query (yes, the SERPs are pretty bad)? I rewrote the query to [ who is best at limbo ] and got a much better result from Google. But as soon as you add 'gender' to the query it switches to articles about being in 'gender limbo' which is't totally surprising.
Yeah those results are better, and it's clear that the best limboer is a woman who can apparently limbo under a car lol.
I just wish the standard results weren't such irrelevant junk.