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Private search engine that summarizes the web
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Justin Kan

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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Wiktoria Jaszcza
Really a useful thing. Best of luck!
Daniel Rascon
Maker
@w_j Thanks! We're glad you like it
Samuel Schaffranek
Why do I need to add the Chrome extension before I can use it within Google Chrome? In other browser there is no need for an extension. Is there any technical reason behind it?
Francesco Mosconi
Maker
@sschaffranek the only thing the chrome extension does is to set you.com as your default search engine. If you set your search engine default to you.com manually in Chrome with "https://you.com/search?q=%s" you will not need the extension, and you can search from the navbar
Richard Socher
Maker
@sschaffranek Mostly a user and convenience question. We found that without the convenience of a navbar search most people won't give it a proper try. Users also told us that once it was their default, they realized it's great (or sometimes just "good enough") for them to stay with us. Our retention is super high once it's default but when people only try one search like "abc" or "weather" -- they often won't then change their default. It's tricky to fully try a search engine with just one search. They're so important for so many aspects of our lives. That being said, we hope we can eventually drop this requirement when we can be a default option in more browsers.
Evgueni Stoilkov
A fresh look at web search. The web space flattens more and more every day.
Daniel Rascon
Maker
@evguenistoilkov Thanks Evgueni! Very true
Todd Shallbetter
A fantastic and overdue product; we have been pondering specialized, curated content solutions, and good to see this come to market.
Francesco Mosconi
Maker
Thanks @todd_shallbetter ! Glad you like it!
R Brewster
Congrats Richard on the launch. Great to see continued innovation in search. The layout is very attractive and it's convenient to see results from different sources grouped together. When I completed my first search my initial reaction was "woah, woah, that's a ton of information to process", especially with the combined vertical and horizontal scrolling. Perhaps there is an opportunity to make the info more easy to digest. Best of luck to you and your team.
Gideon Onyewuenyi
The interface looks great, I love the focus of the product on privacy and security. Most importantly, a search engine that summarizes information on the web, it saves a lot of time for me, awesome product.
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Rick Powell
Love the UI and so far I've gotten relevant results for most searches…except for when I searched for myself and my location. haha It's not like I'm famous or anything (not like Ricky Powell, for instance) but Google found my flickr, YouPic, Linkedin, and Insta accounts with no problem. You.com doesn't place me on Instagram at all even though I am the only Rick Powell without any numbers or symbols or punctuation in my username. (The very first Rick Powell on Instagram!) Google also found several photos that were actually of me. You.com found one photo that I took and that's it. That's all weird and not ideal, isn't it?
Swetha Mandava
Maker
@fascinating_monsters Hi Rick - thanks for your feedback, we will work on improving people search and ranking experience! https://you.com/search?q=rick+po... - Btw cool instagram! :)
Rick Powell
@swethmandava Why thank you! I see when you search for just my name, it finds me on Insta, but it's still weird because when I searched for me and Mexico City, I wasn't there but my other social profiles were visible. All my recent photos are in CDMX, like the last two years. Thanks for replying.
Naga Samineni
Excited about the potential to shake up big G at their game. I find that the website uses 'privacy' and 'private' a little too fungibly, perhaps by design. I'd love for the website to separate and explain in a bit more detail what each of those terms mean in the context of You. I noticed that the website and external marketing of You double down on **never sells your data to advertisers**, but I'm confused - neither do GOOG, FB, MSFT; What am I missing? But overall, excited to watch this product unfold.
Richard Socher
Maker
@naga Thanks for the feedback. Our FAQ answers some more details. In particular this article: https://youdotcom.notion.site/Pr... We won't allow targeted ads for example to follow you around based on searches you make within you.com.
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