Hey there. This is Vivek. I co-founded Neeva with @sridhar_ramaswamy1, and am super excited to bring Neeva to Product Hunt. Search is one of the foundational inventions of our time. We use it every day to amplify our intelligence. Imagining a world without search is nearly impossible. And while search made remarkable historical strides in getting information to you, it has gotten increasingly away from its original mission. Traditional search engines work by monetizing you, the user. You are the product being sold, and not the customer. And that means, when search engines have to choose between showing you that perfect review for a Wi-Fi router, or showing you a bunch of ads from the biggest retailers, they choose the latter. Which sorta makes sense. They put their customer (the advertiser) first, not you. We founded Neeva to reimagine search for you, the end user. You are our only customer. We are in the business of building the world's best search experience for you. We only make money if you get enough value from Neeva to pay for it. Our incentives are perfectly aligned. We start with the basics. We show you no ads. We kill third party tracking. We don't sell your data. On every query, we focus on delivering the best result for you. And as a search engine built for you, we give you agency to make your search experience better. You control which news websites you trust and which new websites you don't. You can choose to connect Neeva to your SaaS services, whether it's email, calendar, cloud storage (and many more in the works). When you do that, you have one place to search across all your information. No more guessing for whether you should go to Stack Overflow or Slack for the solution to your problem. I am very excited to have all of you try Neeva. Building a search engine that reimagines search for you, the end user, is a high bar, and we take that responsibility very seriously. Our product is still early, and feedback from all of you is critical to us getting better. Happy searching!

Thank you, @stevesi ! Hi, this is Sridhar and I am excited to introduce you to Neeva. The world’s first ad-free, private subscription search engine. I don’t have to remind you how far off course mainstream search has gone. Today, one can barely tell where the ads end and your search begins. What started as a well-intentioned way to organize the world’s information has turned into a business focusing most of its resources on monetizing clicks to support advertisers rather than focusing on you. We founded Neeva to change this by completely reimagining search. Search that is ads-free, private, and customizable. This all starts with flipping the traditional business model from an ads-based to a subscription-based service that is 100 percent focused on delivering the best search experience for you. That’s it. There are no ads and no advertisers. Moreover, Neeva personalizes search so you can make it your own. You can connect Neeva to your email accounts, your calendars, and your cloud storage platforms — allowing you to find what’s most important to you at the click of a button. (We are adding more app connectors all the time!) And just as it’s more personal it’s also more private. Your data is never tracked and never sold. We are thrilled to share Neeva with all of you and we promise to do everything we can to give you the best possible search experience.

Hey there! I've been working on building Neeva for the past 2+ years, and it's super exciting to finally share what we've been up to with the Product Hunt community. It's been incredibly rewarding to develop a service that delivers on the fundamental need of information, search, and discovery while putting a business model in place that allows us to prioritize user privacy and choice. Right now, we're focusing on improving our onboarding flows to make it even easier to learn about all of our unique features and benefits. Thanks for checking us out, and I look forward to your thoughts and feedback!

Hi Hunters! I'm Avi and lead product at Neeva . I joined Neeva because I believe there is no one-size fits all solution to search. Neeva’s member-first focus frees us to reimagine the search experience and build towards a better, safer web. Together with our amazing team we strive for a powerful and delightful search experience for our members. For example, we want Neeva to be for you, which means having control of your results. You decide which websites you want to see more or less of in search. In addition, we want to remove friction, beyond no ads, when searching the web. Neeva’s preview panels help get you to an answer faster without opening ten tabs. We’re committed to sharing at least 20% of our revenue in partnership with content creators as we work together to reimagine this new world. @darinwf will also share more about how we can skip the search page altogether to get to answers even faster. I hope you try us and see the same potential I do for how a private, ad-free search engine focused on you can dramatically change your experience. Looking forward to hearing your feedback!

I'm excited to share this hunt with everyone. My friend, @sridhar_ramaswamy1 and team have been hard at work building a new search experience. Not only is it a great search product, it’s private and ad-free. I've been using it as my default search engine for a while now and am finding more to like all the time. Changing search engines is a big deal for most, but I think it is well-worth the benefits to explore Neeva and give it serious consideration. I'm happy to share this personal find with the community.

Hey Hunters! 👋 I'm Edmund, an early engineer here at Neeva. I've been lurking Product Hunt for years, discovering great products, and absorbing a ton of valuable insight from the product-interested community. So it's quite an honor to finally have a chance to build something and present it here as a maker today. 🙌 With the launch of our ad-free search engine, we're signaling the beginning of our journey to change the way we interact with the internet. Up to this point, ads-driven businesses have dominated a lot of the web we use with fee-free services, but at the cost of our data, privacy, and anonymity. Launching a search engine that does much more to respect your privacy without sacrificing the convenience that personalization brings is our first small (but ambitious) step towards creating and influencing a more private and less exploitative internet. Even before joining Neeva, I've been interested in privacy-focused and user-centric products, and some of my favorite products today include 📝 Standard Notes , 💬 Signal , and 📧 ProtonMail . So, it's exciting that other like-minded individuals can begin to consider Neeva in their privacy stack alongside these other stand-out products. So take us for a spin, and please don't hesitate to let us know what you think in a comment here or as feedback through Neeva. We greatly appreciate the support! 🙏 — Edmund 🦜

I've been using Neeva as my default search engine for the past few months, and have been loving it. Search results are exceptional, and it's refreshing to get fewer corporate results. I love the privacy first approach along with the integration with Gmail & the news customization feature. Definitely a great tool and looking forward to seeing it evolve.

Hi everyone! I’m Darin, and I joined Neeva earlier this year to help build our mobile app, the Neeva browser. Having worked on browsers for over 20 years, I haven’t felt like the browser is done yet. There’s more we can and should do to help users explore the web and stay organized as they are doing so. Neeva can help bring the web to users as they browse. Neeva can help users get back into the tasks they were doing without needing to search again. Neeva can help users get directly to the sites they are interested in without needing to first visit a search results page. For me, the opportunity with Neeva is clear and it leads directly into how the browser experience and the web can be so much better for users. I’m excited for everyone to have the chance to experience what we are building!

I know PH hunt is hardly the place for critical questions. However... they are calling themselves the anti-Google. Why is everyone ignoring the elephant in the room with these guys? Neeva was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Raghunathan (ex-VP of Monetization at YouTube). Ramaswamy oversaw all advertising at Google, was the exec responsible for increasing ads on search results (only 3% of the screen originally) to the current excessive level, and he knew doing this made search results and privacy worse for consumers. If Google search got broken then he did more than anyone to break it. Vivek Raghunathan put all the ads on YouTube. Those ads are so bad Google makes money from people paying to remove them. They left Google after a scandal with YouTube showing ads on videos that exploited young children and appealed to pedophiles. Now they're asking us to pay to get rid of ads from a worse version of Google. Are the architects of the problem the right people to trust for a solution? The born-again anti-advertising schtick just seems too clever by half. They are collecting more private personal data than Google ever did. I'd genuinely love to see someone answer this. Happy to post links for anyone interested in reading more. I haven't tried it yet. I tried signing up and they are not allowing international or Australian access. I asked a similar question when they launched on Hacker News and they didn't answer it or similar questions there. I hope they'll answer here.

This looks really great. ?makers how do you differentiate yourselves from DuckDuckGo and Brave?

Hi everyone! I'm Rachel, a Product Designer here at Neeva. One of the main reasons why I joined Neeva is because of how incredibly personal and user-centric our mission is. Focusing on giving control back to our users has been exhilarating. From finding recipes for a family dinner to assembling data for a research report, the talented team here at Neeva is determined to give you the best possible friction-less search experience — whatever that search query may be. Give us a try and let us show you what an ad-free, private search engine could be like. And, definitely let us know what you think. We're all very excited to hear and learn from your feedback!

Very nice and interesting product. How are the results of searches curated? And how does the search through personal accounts work? In any case, thank you for releasing something like this

Hey Product Hunt! I've been beta testing Neeva since April. @sridhar_ramaswamy1 and the entire team have done a great job on a search engine that I imagine will only get better with time. That said, I switched back to using Google (with AdBlock) about a week ago. I got relevant results most of the time with Neeva, particularly in the areas of news and product searches. I had more trouble finding the correct answer to my software development questions. Unfortunately, Google's spillover became relevant when I started searching for local restaurant reviews as well. My preferred platform for finding good eats is Google Maps -- I'm a big contributor there! With Neeva (understandably) pushing Yelp over Google Maps, I found myself opening a new tab and entering a specific location in Maps to look at reviews. This is all to say that Neeva has done an incredible job for most cases, but wasn't enough to make me stick around. I'd encourage everyone to try Neeva out and decide for yourself what you prefer!

Interesting idea! Ultimately, you either pay for the product, or you are the product. Love the practicality of this business model. Two questions I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on; 1) will you be looking to integrate shopping into your platform (similar to Google Shopping etc)? If so, will there be any differentiating factor? 2) how can you guarantee the same, or better, quality of search/experience for users? Granted, there is a benefit to less/no tracking. However, could the argument be made that the increased privacy could also lead to less relevant results? Thanks and good luck!

Instant download. Congrats on the public launch!

Over time, the question of monetization will arise and advertising will appear in any case)

Thank you for bringing this! How are you better than Google in terms of the search performance or the search algorithm? Could Neeva be as intuitive and smart as google search is?

Highly recommend checking out Neeva! As a beta tester, it's been awesome to see the product continuously improve week to week. Also very glad to see us evolve away from ad supported model here. Congrats on the launch @sridhar_ramaswamy1 @vivek_raghunathan1 @ahvee!

Disclaimer: I work at Neeva. Neeva has been my go-to search engine for almost a year! I've seen the product improve drastically, and it's only getting better. It's been refreshing to not have to think "is this an ad", or see ads of things I've clicked on follow me around every time I search. Neeva's interface makes it very easy to cut through the noise that is the internet. I feel less distracted, more productive, and at ease that my data isn't being sold to advertisers. Also, if you like to cook - Neeva does an amazing job for Recipes 😍 .

I've been an early user of Neeva for the past few months and have been extremely happy being the customer and not the product.