I had used Neeva for the last 2-3 years. I paid $1 a month for search but apparently not enough people cared about a search engine that didn't track everything you do. Founders were GOOG alumni. They stopped a month ago, so now I'm looking. I've tried Edge which is better than it was a few years ago but not excellent. GOOG is more annoying than it ever was and I have to remind myself to ignore all of the scammy advertising on the first results page. I may try DuckDuckGo again but it has always been lacking. With AI we may get a subscription search service with an option to delete tracking. If it's excellent, $20-30 a month doesn't seem too expensive. If I had a service that only read and analyzed quarterly reports and conference calls I could easily digest 150-200 companies a quarter instead of 20-30. I'm imagining a trainable AI that improves as you use it and understands what is most pertinent to your investing style.
Yahoo search is AltaVista. They bought AV's public search 20 years ago and have never really understood how to improve it. RIP AV, I used it for years in the early days of the WWW.
On a different subject, Stock Charts is coming out with improved advanced screening and alerts this summer. I've been playing around with it this week trying to understand if it's as good as DeMark's Symbolik. That one has a simple language and produced excellent results but could not handle complex technical algos without breaking for reasons their technical staff could not fix. I'm hoping the new SC system will work well. $25 a month for 100 alerts and $40 a month for 200 along with their usual excellent charting package. To begin, I want to track large cap, US based SPX and near-SPX companies by industry.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. - WB
