If there's a lot of interest, we'd be happy to offer a monthly paid plan also. It's interesting. Only on HN do we hear users asking to pay for an otherwise free service. Majority of our users everywhere else would never pay for search.
youChat will get a lot better in the coming months
Sorry, the model is not yet self-aware nor aware of you.com - We will feed it better information about ourselves soon.
For now, you can read about all the answers on of FAQ site: https://about.you.com/ - which will soon get a design overhaul also... The joys of a startup.
Yea. These are valid concerns.
We care a lot about privacy and are making public statements and commitments to it.
Technically any privacy-focused business (proton, ddg, etc) could pivot and change their mind but the hope is that by starting with those commitments potential future shareholders would understand that the erosion of trust would hurt the brand and not push for it?
We want to stay free and open to everyone so we will explore private ads (not user dependent, only based on query, not tracking, similar to DDG) and useful monetized apps like youWrite or youImagine (ie stable diffusion).
If there's enough interest, we can also open up a paid account without ads.
you.com CEO here.
We let people give feedback on which major content blocks they want to see and soon will let developers add their own search-apps also. We believe in an open platform you can control, for the future of search.
We are seeing a lot of growth and retention with developers on https://you.com/code
You can vote on which search-apps you like and soon block or pin them completely.
You will also be able to submit your own search-apps soon. We believe in an open platform for search.
We've indexed billions of pages already at you.com to avoid this situation.
The majority of our apps like Stackoverflow and Medium etc, we've indexed ourselves.
Good time to switch to a search engine that
has code snippets, coding tutorials, AI code completion, AI blog writing, a useful yelp app, great privacy, gives control over the sources and apps I want to see and summarizes pros/cons for products.