Neeva – The Newly Launched Search Engine to Challenge Google

We all know that Google is the largest search engine in the world. According to the latest survey in 2020, Google has 90% of the global search market share. Over the past two decades, lots of search engines including Microsoft’s bing tried to push down google search market share. Recently DuckDuckGo tried to push down google based on privacy issues. But still, Google has a specific dominant on the search engine market.

Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar Ramaswamy is a man who worked in Google from 2003 to 2018 (15 years),  as Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce. In an interview held by “The New York Times”,  Ramaswamy told that he had left google because of disillusionment. The continuous effort to maintain Google’s growth, he said, had come at a heavy cost to the company’s users. Relevant search results were pushed down the page to find more space for advertisements, and privacy data was sacrificed for some online tracking tools to keep tabs on what ads people were seeing.

Neeva

After two years,  Ramaswamy has formed a new company and tried to create an alternative to the google search. The newly developed search engine is called Neeva. Maybe this search engine(Neeva) will challenge or replace google in the future. Because this is developed by an Indian-American Ex-Google Executive who handled the charge of the company’s $115 billion advertising arm (Ramaswamy). Vivek Raghunathan ( ex-VP of Monetization at YouTube ) is a co-founder of Neeva search engine.

Neeva gives more priority to the relevancy of search results since it is an ad-free search engine. This search engine is never going to generate money with user’s privacy & datas instead  Neeva collects a subscription amount from the users. The monthly subscription amount is about 10 USD per month.

In the future, the Neeva search engine will be a direct competitor to Google which will not have Ads and is subscription-supported. Neeva so far raised USD 37.5 million and has 25 employees.

Do you think Neeva can push down Google?

Reference:- https://www.talenteracademy.com/articles/neeva-search-engine-by-former-google-executive-sridhar-ramaswamy/

New Bing Webmaster Tool Feature – Site Scan

Bing - Site Scan

Bing launched a new feature “Site Scan” on the new version of the bing webmaster tool. This new tool scans your web pages and sorts out common SEO issues of your site. This scanning process is realtime. After submitting a site you need to wait sometime for the bing scan report. For digital marketers, this new feature is really helpful to optimize their web pages for the bing search engine.

To access this feature

Bing Webmaster tool -> Switch to new version -> Site Scan

To start a new scan you need to configure scan with scan name, Scope, URL & Number of pages, Also this tool provides some advanced options to set max Scan depth, Crawling speed, ignoring specific URL parameters & robots.txt.

After configuring the scan, we need to wait for completing the scan. Once it is completed, bing will send an email from bingwb@microsoft.com with the subject line “Scan status update from Bing Webmaster Team.”

Now you can access the report on the bing webmaster tool. This report contains scan status, number of pages scanned, number of errors, number of warnings, list of issues found, their severity, and the number of pages affected.

This report categories issues as Errors, Warnings, and Notices

Errors: These are the most critical issue being noticed while scanning your website. You need to resolve this issue urgently otherwise these issues can impact your website indexability.

Warnings: These are the issues noticed by bing. These issues have medium severity which might impact on your SEO health.

Notices: These are the lowest severity issue or recommendations, Not that much important you need to solve these types of issues after solving major issues ( Errors & Warnings ).

As a view of a digital marketer, Bing’s new feature is really helpful. Fixing these issues will optimize your website for search engine and it also makes your site more user friendly. Using this tool you can improve your website performance on Bing as well as other search engines.

Reference: Talenter Academy

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