Exa, 35 Person Startup Building a New Search Engine, Raises $85m Series B
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Exa, a 35-person startup, raises $85M Series B funding for its new search engine, which users find promising for surfacing relevant and up-to-date results, although some pricing concerns are raised.
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I just did two searches that I did the last few days with google and frustratingly got old irrelevant results
exa.ai was able to surface relevant things -- the exact stuff I needed and recent, up-to-date stuff, too.
and
python decorator -- this one is timeless but I wanted to see new stuff
how am I to understand the search, context, answer, and research pricing? do I just look at search pricing if that's all I plan to do, for now?
curious what you believe to be confusing, we'd love to make it clearer! perhaps you landed on a different page somehow?
Also minor notes:
* Research link in the footer is a 404 * Changelog link in the footer is a link to the blog
edit: after reading the documentation, there are 4 search types, "auto" and "fast" are 2 options that have been combined into a single column on the pricing table. The "latency" at the bottom is a description of the "fast" and "auto" options. I think I understand it now.