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You.com - Private search engine that summarizes the web

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You.com, the world's first open search engine platform that summarizes the web for users, with superior privacy choices, actionable results, extensible apps and personalization through preferred sources.

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Sharath Kuruganty
Stoked for the launch! Congrats Richard, Julia and team! Curious to know, what kinda growth moves you are making to onboard users? Since everyone is wired to Google or other search engines.
Richard Socher
Maker
@5harath We'll have to share those with you as we roll out. Don't want to give all our good ideas to the competition before we get a chance to test them out ourselves. You're totally right. That will be a long struggle. It's a big 2tr$ monopoly.
Erick Muller
Why is it unusable without the chrome extension? I would love to try it as my default search engine but because of this I cant. I use Vivaldi as a browser which can use chrome extensions but not this one.
Richard Socher
Maker
@mullerickins Sorry for the inconvenience. Not sure why the extension doesn't work in Vivaldi. If you set your search engine default to you.com manually in Vivaldi with "https://you.com/search?q=%s" you will not need the extension. You can see Vivaldi steps also linked for the FAQ: https://youdotcom.notion.site/FA...
Erick Muller
@richardsocher I was able to do that. However whenever I search fpr something and then decide to search for something else in the top bar of you.com I get met with a "you’ll need to add the you.com Chrome extension". This is very annoying because people who search things usually want to then modify what they searched to get a better result. And I cant do that here.
Richard Socher
Maker
@mullerickins Yea, the extension takes 5 seconds to install or uninstall. We found that the majority of users want that convenience. It's a very small extension and has no other features or functionality. It's not one of those sketchy extensions. I hate those myself.
Erick Muller
I’m not sure how that solves my problem.
Swetha Mandava
Maker
@mullerickins Hi Erick, thanks for your feedback. The extension requirement is gone and we are fully open in all browsers. Happy searching!
Steven Rueter
Fun features for the developer community, very smart. Beautiful and intuitive UI/UX, as well.
Richard Socher
Maker
@rueter We bring back agency to our users by giving them control over sources they prefer. In the future, we will also allow developers to submit apps to the platform. <3
Nik Burin
Wow! That's literally what I said out loud and all I did was search from my home city! Love the UI and how information is broken down by the source. Really good work! My default search engine from now on
Richard Socher
Maker
@burinnik Thanks so much. And we are just getting started. So much more to come :)
Nik Burin
@richardsocher Looking forward to it Richard! Thanks again for an amazing product! I think my only request as a user would be dark mode ;)
Pascal Weinberger
Been using it since more then 6 months now and it’s especially useful for all engineering related searches 🦄 huge fan of this!
Daniel Rascon
Maker
@pascal_weinberger Thanks Pascal! We appreciate the support
Ari Bajo
I am excited about this! Being able to tell you.com which kind of content you prefer makes sense to me... Google is still showing the same search results to anyone who searches the same keyword. Search needs to be personalized!
Francesco Mosconi
Maker
Thanks for the excitement @ari_bajo_rouvinen !
Devin Pickell
Great concept @richardsocher! Is the search functionality only available via Chrome extension?
Daniel Rascon
Maker
@richardsocher @dpickell Thanks Devin! You can use You.com by making it your default. The easiest way is to install the extension but you can also do this in your browser's settings
Nice! I hope we eventually surpass Google.
Jason Xu WhatsBoxx
simple, privacy and great
James Mak
I do appreciate the visual rendition of an inverted pyramid information architecture. Very refreshing to see a SERP completely clean of ads, feels so good old days. It also feels like the few $ a month days are coming…
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