Neeva is Shutting Down Its Privacy-First, Ad-Free $4.95-a-Month Search Engine

Two years ago Slashdot covered "the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers" — with a $4.95 monthly subscription fee.Today long-time Slashdot reader imcdona brings the news that "Neeva" is now shutting down. From Neeva's announcement:We started Neeva with the mission to take search back to its users. Having worked on search and search ads for over a decade, we sincerely believed that there was space for a model of search that put user and not advertiser interests first &mdash