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Comment by jweir | Hacker News Reader

Neeva was great and I enjoyed using it until…

The media bias feature was added. It was silly and probably not cheap to create.

The StackOverflow integration was terrible and a misdirection. Completely unusable.

Then the LLM came. It was slow and inaccurate and in your face . I asked to have it disabled but found now way. I stopped using it soon after.

Too bad. At its core was a great engine from my experience.

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Yup, they got distracted and didn’t seem to focus on their core mission. So much focus on crypto, then growth features like “media bias”, then AI which they had zero hope in winning. It felt like they were always chasing their tail.

> ...then AI which they had zero hope in winning.

This announcement is more along the lines of, we'd rather sell AI-based products to enterprises than to consumers?

What was the media bias thing? Can you describe it in more detail? What was silly about it?

You could search news and have an option to select if you wanted your results more right wing or left wing.

It was a show off feature that solved a problem I’m not sure anyone needed solving. And I doubt it was cheap to create.

This alone didn’t raise an eyebrow but looking back now I see it as a misdirection.

I thought it was great. Way way to get a sense of the headlines posted about a given topic from either side's perspective. It might have been easily implemented using something like ground.news

I agree 100%. I loved it when I started using 2years ago and have been sad to watch its downward slide for the reasons you indicated. Time to switch to kagi

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