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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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Kirill Marenkov
Great idea to structure search results by web, video platforms, github and etc. Looks very pretty and easy to find the most relevant content. But your onboarding is not very clean. Why should i install your Chrome extension or signup to access further results. It seems too pushy, especially when it's communicated as better privacy. Maybe you should add some value explanation before pushing me to do these things. 👀
Richard Socher
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@marenkovcyril Thanks. Glad you like it. Good feedback. Yea... Requiring the extension for navbar searches was a tough choice. You actually can try it out in incognito mode and any other browser. But we found that without the convenience of a navbar search, most people won't give it a proper try either way. I hope we can drop this requirement even in Chrome when we become one of the default options. If you set your search engine default to you.com manually in Chrome, you will not need the extension... but for most people convenience wins and well... It's tough to go up against a monopoly that controls the browser too? You can find more details for every browser setup here: https://youdotcom.notion.site/Ma...
Dean Gilvin
For a company that is touting privacy, I'm a bit put off with the sign in. Sorry, not sorry but I do not like the layout at all. Reading left to right is odd and no I'm not going to retrain my brain for a search engine. With everything in little boxes and the different shades of colors it comes off as a convoluted mess. And I have to do more clicks to just see web results, this should be the first thing you see. Also, like Google and somewhat Bing, the results are loaded with everything but I was looking for. A lot of booking engines, review sites, everything but what I actually would want. Will I be using this instead of say Startpage or Qwant, the answer is no. I'm not sure exactly who this is geared towards, but my guess it is a niche group that will not sustain it.
Raphael Tissot
I understand the ambition and the value prop, but when I search something typical like "best hotels san francisco", I get the exact same results as Google, ie, a god aweful result : "25 Best hotels from Booking..", "44 Best hotels from trip advisor..." , "10 Best from Conde Nast" Do you plan on applying ML to summarize these types of use cases ?
Swetha Mandava
Maker
@raphael_io Yes that's the plan :) we are getting to one use case after another
Hassaan Noor
Precisely because of cluttered search engines like this one, google came into existence.
Pau Todó
(you forgot to mention "it only works in English" ;)
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When will the search engine have its own app on google play?
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