You should make you.com your default search engine. I've been using it as mine for a couple of months now. The interface is dope — and I think my developer friends are especially going to love it for coding. Shout out to my friend and you.com's founder Richard Socher for building the future of search. Richard is one of the most brilliant minds in AI/NLP, and he's also one of the nicest guys you'll meet — a rare combination. Best of luck, Richard and team!

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.

Thank you so much for the hunt and your kind words, Justin. 👋 Hi Product Hunt! I'm excited to introduce the public beta of you.com, the world's first open search engine platform that summarizes the web, superior privacy choices, 100+ search-apps, actionable results and personalization through preferred sources. I had the original idea 8.5 years ago to create personalized web summaries. Over the years, I thought deeply about what's the most high-impact thing I can do with my skillset and energy? I believe search is the most important application of AI and especially NLP today. We want people to have agency in their information diet through personalization and customization and websites of all sizes to have a chance at being on the first page of search when their content is relevant. We also believe in world-class privacy without having to tradeoff convenience. We offer a private mode that's just one click away. No matter what mode you're in — private or personalized — we'll never sell our users' data, follow them around the web, or offer privacy-invading targeted ads. https://you.com also opens up the closed gates of previous search engines by making relevant content easily available through multiple apps. For example, try finding the most relevant content across multiple sources at once. Sources like Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow or Medium would each need their own search query. On you.com, they are all searchable in one place with one query to allow you to explore a topic from many different angles. We also think you should be able to search less and do more. For example, if you're a developer, we think you'll like our StackOverflow and Code Complete apps that help you code faster with quick copy and paste buttons on snippets of code. Give it a try and let us know what you think. We're here to answer your questions. We're grateful for your feedback and we want to continue to build the next generation of search together. 🔍 🙏 Thanks again, - Richard

As with all product that change how things fundamentally work, it took a while to get a hang of it. I had to retrain my brain to scan the results a different way, so although it might seem frustrating at first, it's worth it 💪 Once you get a hang of it, you can get really profficient at getting to the right result FAST. tl;dr: you'll be spending more time in the SERP, but less time opening and closing tabs 😁

Been using it since more then 6 months now and it’s especially useful for all engineering related searches 🦄 huge fan of this!

Update: Hey all. So happy to read all the positive comments! We listen to the criticism as well. There seemed to be only one major issue which we just resolved: The Chrome extension requirement is gone and we are fully open in all browsers now. Thanks for your feedback. Keep it coming :) <3

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?

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?

This is pretty big. Congrats and good luck! Will be very interesting to see how this new and exciting engine will do amidst the other giants.

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 ?

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. 👀

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!

This is absolutely brilliant (coming from an ex Googler), is there a way to invest? Can you elaborate on the revenue model?

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

Congrats on the product, but it was almost impossible to use it without installing a Chrome extension. I think it's being too pushy. I get being aggressive to get users but it went from "This is a cool project" to "Nope, thanks". Best of luck with the project!

wow. the search engine is so you. i can't live with you. all i think about is you. you are so special. you are part of my life. you got me through the tough times. you ...

Super excited about You.com's search engine challenge to Google's spynet. Other search engines like DDG/Bing/Neeva either promise privacy, beautiful visuals or no-ads. But You.com entirely overhauls the "Information experience" by allowing me to define my entire experience of maintaining privacy, visualization of results and ad experience.In the future you.com is promising that it will open up it's platform which I find even more exciting as that would be equivalent to Apple creating the app economy.Only this time applied to search!

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.

One of the best ways to lose users it to ask them to try your product and than force an absolutely unnecessary extension.

You and also Google are removing the need to open links from search results, thus harming content creators. For example, by embedding Stack Overflow results, Stack Overflow is not showing their job adverts or their paid products adverts (Teams). Embedded results are very convenient as a search user but not so great as a content creator. This is something to think about. Some content creators are starting to be pissed off with Google about it. Particularly since the introduction of snippets. If at some point you monetised the platform with advertising, you could share revenues with content creators for embedded results, which I believe is something Google doesn't do.