No Priors // What is the future of search? With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
For the first time in decades web search might be at risk for disruption. Bing is allied with OpenAI to integrate LLMs. Google has committed to launching new products. New startups are emerging.
Key Points
- Neva is a challenger search platform that aims to create a better private search engine that is ads-free and privacy-focused.
- The recent breakthrough of Neva is the use of large language models to create AI summaries that can provide a believable answer to a question for a better search experience.
Episode Description
For the first time in decades web search might be at risk for disruption. Bing is allied with OpenAI to integrate LLMs. Google has committed to launching new products. New startups are emerging.
Sridhar Ramaswamy co-founded the challenger AI-powered, private search platform Neeva in 2019. He is a former 16-year Google veteran who most recently led the internet’s most profitable business as SVP in charge of Google Ads, Commerce and Privacy. Sridhar, Elad and Sarah talk about the challenge of building search, how LLMs have changed the landscape, and how chatbots and "answer services" will affect web publishers.