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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
Decision by team to first iterate with users and make the system work really well in one region before expanding
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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
(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 end of the day, we only make money if our users use our pro
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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
(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) product and our "premium" (paid) pr
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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
(co-founder) Working hard to address.
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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
(co-founder) Thanks for reporting the rendering issue. We'll fix this.
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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
(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 coming!
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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
(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-dominating-... tldr; there are tw
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by vivekraghunatha 4y ago
(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 bad pages and sites from your index, tie-breaking when you
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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
(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 Firefox to be the default. Bing is default on Edge.
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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
(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 imminent improvements on modal frequency and getting them out
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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
(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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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
(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. There are a number of vendors who can help you with the raters p
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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
(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 health sites as "trusted", "ad-supported" et
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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
(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 of heart. Great job!
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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
For sure, there's a bit of that. You would still agree w/ the point I'm making?
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by vivekraghunatha 5y ago
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 Google. The Chrome sandbox efforts have been going on for 3-