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The search engine is called Neeva [1]. It seems to be pretty advanced already. The results are responsive and accurate. I was surprised that they offered a maps feature, but this appears to be Apple Maps

One thing that surprised me is that searching for "php strpos" revealed not just the PHP docs for the function as I expected, but actually has the sections of the page visible in the first result, as well as a succinct code snippet in the description. The text does get cut off with no way to scroll, but still, having the function signature at a glance is really cool

[1] https://neeva.com/

I like the 90 day limit to all automated signed out data storage in the privacy policy[0], but I'd love to know if there's anything unreasonable someone else can find in it.

[0] https://neeva.com/privacy

The only thing it does wrong (imo) is clutter the home page with attempts to sell itself. Not having a clean landing page is ironic for a product made by a disgruntled Google employee.

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