{"id":7105,"date":"2021-08-03T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T08:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T08:59:07","slug":"is-there-now-a-business-in-paid-for-web-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7105","title":{"rendered":"Is there now a business in paid-for web search?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would commend a <a href=\"http:\/\/arnoldit.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/16\/a-xoogler-wants-to-do-search-channeling-exalead-and-smoking-infinitysearch\/\">blog post by Stephen Arnold<\/a> on the future of paid-for web search, prompted by the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/neeva.com\/\">Neeva<\/a> which comes free for three months and then you pay $4.95 a month. (That fee is in very very small print on the home page!) Over the years several companies have tried to take on Google, notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exalead.com\/search\/\">Exalead<\/a>, and of course Microsoft. A lot of potential here for the research community to carry out a host of A\/B tests on Neeva vs Google. Incidentally if you have not come across <a href=\"http:\/\/arnoldit.com\/wordpress\/\">Stephen<\/a> before he is a very well informed (and usually highly sceptical) watcher and analyst of the search business. Some years ago now we co-authored a guide (actually quite a large report) about the successful management of enterprise search but it failed to make the best sellers list. Indeed it failed to sell at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would commend a blog post by Stephen Arnold on the future of paid-for web search, prompted by the release of Neeva which comes free for three months and then you pay $4.95 a month. (That fee is in very very small print on the home page!) Over the years several companies have tried to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7105\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is there now a business in paid-for web search?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-article","category-summer-2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}