Has anyone tried Neeva
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Vivaldi announced integrating Neeva as a search option. This is a subscription based, privacy centered NOT AD BASED search engine. It includes some nice options. Has anyone taken them up on their 3 month free trial?
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@steveshank It’s US only, so most of us have no chance to try it.
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By the way ☛ https://neeva.com/features
Scroll to privacy, they don’t list their partner Vivaldi as compatible browser ^^ -
Just a general update for my one day of experience.
It is a better search. Much cleaner. I used Duckduckgo and am very pleased with these new results. I did prefer ddg to Google results. But these have more programmer sites and blogs as sources.
Also like being able to tailor, to some extent my sources. Essentially you get to prefer, nothing or reduce their usage of various sources. I have not desire to link to my non-existent Gmail account or google calendar which also doesn't exist or some of the other features.
But, is the benefit worth $60/year price? I don't know. But I'm afraid that after 3 months of free ad-free search results going back to even ddg will be like using a browser without an ad-blocker.
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@steveshank There's already a thread about Neeva.
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@eggcorn You are right. I missed that and did search for Neeva. Thanks.
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Tried it today:
No thanks, removed now from the search list settings.
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@stardust How do you expect a paid service to be private? It is doable but I have never seen one myself and it would probably require crypto payments.
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I never heard about it, so it was quite unexpected to see a Sign in popup instead of search results.
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I quit using it. They actually did a half hour or so interview with me to discuss their system. They intended at that time to decide that some news sources were "good" and "authoritative" while others were not and they'd promote those that were proper and demote those that were not.
They had no scientific or replicable way of making their decisions. They used the authority of some people they trust, who of course would have different opinions that other people who instead of being from New York and California were from Texas and Idaho. They didn't seem to see this as an issue. After all, their authorities were right and the others were wrong.
They didn't understand that simply the opinions of people who agree with them politically doesn't make a source objectively authoritative. The notion of actually doing the science of how many false articles were published or something else that is replicable should be required before labeling some sources as untrustworthy was not of interest to them.
They were searching for something they could do which would make their engine worth the money the felt they needed to charge to make their business work.
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@steveshank + they still haven’t listed Vivaldi as compatible browser.
