Neeva, co-founded by a former Google exec, to shut down its consumer search product and focus on A.I.

Neeva, the privacy-focused search company co-founded by former Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy, announced Saturday that it is shutting down its consumer search engine and will focus on exploring use cases for artificial intelligence.

In a blog post on the company’s website, Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, another Neeva co-founder, wrote that “acquiring users has been really hard.”…