Neeva: Ad-free, subscription-based search engine launches

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Not available unless you live in the US I guess

Re: Neeva: Ad-free, subscription-based search engine launches

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

kilodeca wrote: post #4

bla3 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No.

Then why the hell it exists?

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Re: Neeva: Ad-free, subscription-based search engine launches

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Post by giancarlostoro » Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

Looks like it's a $5 a month search engine. This is something I've kind of wanted for ages, so I guess I'll sign up and see how it works. I secretly wish Mozilla the corporation would of made their own search engine with a subscription model ages ago.

Mozilla corp / non-profit has a history somewhat similar to Google's where they seem to build things they phase out, and not do things to make themselve sustainable enough to not have to mass fire people who do a net good for the greater internet community that relies on them (thinking of MDN).

Re: Neeva: Ad-free, subscription-based search engine launches

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Post by herlitzj » Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

Ads aren't the only problem. All the SEO clickbait is worse than the ads in my opinion. I can ignore the ads, but anymore a lot of the time the first page or two of results are just clickbait junk. Look at their example results. #3 looks like an SEO clickbait site to me.

edit: Looks like you can customize results somewhat, so maybe that will help? A quick way to silence those kinds of hits would be nice.

Re: Neeva: Ad-free, subscription-based search engine launches

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Post by bun_at_work » Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 7:00 PM UTC

herlitzj wrote: post #9

Ads aren't the only problem. All the SEO clickbait is worse than the ads in my opinion. I can ignore the ads, but anymore a lot of the time the first page or two of results are just clickbait junk. Look at their example results. #3 looks like an SEO clickbait site to me. edit: Looks like you can customize results somewhat, so maybe that will help? A quick way to silence those kinds of hits would be nice.

I don't know enough about SEO/web crawlers, so this might be a silly question, but there is a way to identify SEO optimized websites, right? Isn't there a special file or something?

Not sure if it'd be optimal, but dropping all search results with such optimization might bring a more broad search across the internet (more sites than just the common clickbait ones).