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Ramaswamy: Chrome pops up warnings prompting users to revert search defaults
“It's terrifying for us to do that today when Chrome keeps popping up warnings such as, hey, do you want to change your default back?”
Ramaswamy: Dominant incumbents are historically disrupted by subscription models
“If you look at previous cases of what has disrupted them, it is typically a subscription play.”
Ramaswamy: Direct subscription fees make products better than ad models
“I believe Sort of capitalism should enable great products at scale. So I don't think of ourselves as creating some of this elitist premium product. It's a great product. Of course you pay for it. But that makes the product better. That allows us to serve you b…”
Ramaswamy: Safari restricts default search engines to five preselected options
“Outside of the prescribed five, You can't change the search engine on Safari to anything else, even today.”
Ramaswamy: Rapid rollout of ChatGPT and AI products surprised Google
“It's very clear that the crazy popularity of ChatGPT and the speed at which others, including Neva, rolled out Pretty credible AI powered products. I think was pretty surprising for them.”
Ramaswamy: Neeva will never use ads, affiliate links, or data sales
“Subscription search was the way to create a superior product and having really squeaky clean business principles, not just around no ads, but also around things like no affiliate links ever, No data getting packaged and sold ever being privacy first.”
Ramaswamy: Neeva required every sentence in AI search to include citations
“And this is why we were very persnickety about making sure that every sentence that we provided came with a citation.”
Ramaswamy: Conversational search sharply increased comparison queries at Neeva
“We don't look at sort of individual queries. That's one of the no-no's of any search engine. And so, like, we would do things like analysis on the length of queries, what sort of quality that that, that we would serve. But as I said, comparison queries increas…”