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You.com
Type of site
Search engine
Founder(s)Richard Socher
Bryan McCann
URLhttps://you.com/
LaunchedNovember 9, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-11-09)
Current statusPublic beta

You.com is a search engine. It allows people to personalize their search by letting its users upvote, downvote, or block apps.[1] It provides additional products including their chatbot called YouChat,[2] a writing tool called YouWrite,[3] and AI-image generator called YouImagine, which utilizes models like Stable Diffusion and Open Journey.

The company was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher,[4] the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, and Bryan McCann,[5][6][7] a former Lead Research Scientist in NLP at Salesforce.

In 2022, You.com surpassed one million active users,[8] the number of searches grew by over 400% in six months.[9]

Search engine

You.com gets its search engine results from Microsoft Bing, though it does have its own crawler, known as YouBot.[10][11][12]

YouChat

YouChat[13] is their AI-powered conversational search assistant. It has the ability to provide answer questions, suggest ideas,[14] translate texts,[15] summarize articles, compose emails[13] and write code snippets. It has the ability to stay up-to-date with current events,[16] and cites its sources. It was released on December 23, 2022.

Several further version of YouChat have been released. The second version, known as YouChat 2.0, was released on February 7, 2023,[17][18] incorporates more conversational AI[19] and community-built applications by blending large language model, which they have named C-A-L (Chat, Apps, and Links)[19][13] to provide results such as charts,[20] photos,[2] videos, tables, graphs, text or code, so users can find answers without leaving the search results page. Version 3, known as YouChat 3.0 was released on May 4, 2023.[21][22]

The YouChat interface can combine chat functionality with other platforms such as Reddit,[23] TikTok, Stack Overflow[24] and Wikipedia.

YouWrite

YouWrite[25] is an AI writing tool[26] that helps writers,[18] authors, and bloggers overcome writer's block and improve their skills. It assists in creating various types of written content[26] including emails, blog posts, novels, essays and social media posts. It uses OpenAI's GPT-3[27] language model from OpenAI to generate content for users based on information[28] like text type, target audience and desired tone. Users can generate up to 10 inquiries a day with the free version of YouWrite.

YouImagine

YouImagine generates images through AI[29] that uses Stable Diffusion 1.5 and 2.0,[13][30] and OpenJourney. It allow users to create AI-generated images[31] using text. The Stable Diffusion model runs on Stability.ai's[32] open source model.

YouCode

YouCode[33] is similar to programming resources like Stack Overflow and GitHub, among others. It was released on July 14, 2022.[34] It is aims at programmers to find solutions to coding problems.[20] YouCode has a search bar that understands plain language, AI code generation tools,[35] code samples and a collection of relevant resources. It helps developers to search for code snippets[34][36] and access relevant documentation,[37] and academic publications.[34] There are several developer-specific tools, such as a code editor and a debugging console,[13] built-in tools to verify JSON files[33][36] and generate color codes in various formats like HEX, RGB, and HSV.[27]

Open Platform

The You.com open-search platform[9] allow others to[34] create custom applications[8] called "Search Apps"[9] for the search results page, allowing users to customize their search experience. It also helps developers gain revenue.[38]

You.com currently offers more than 200 first-party apps,[23][31] that allow users to find summarized information or complete tasks without leaving the results page.

Users have the ability to positively or negatively influence[39] future rankings of any app by giving a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down,[40][8] and can also block them from appearing in search results altogether.

References

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  2. ^ a b Deutscher, Maria. "You.com debuts multimodal AI chatbot for search". SiliconANGLE.
  3. ^ Jain, Osheen (March 17, 2022). "You.com launches YouWrite, an AI-powered writing tool powered by OpenAI". Analytics Drift. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  4. ^ Miller, Ron. "You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search". TechCrunch. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
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  14. ^ You.com (May 10, 2023). "Introducing YouChat — The AI Search Assistant that Lives in Your Search Engine". Medium.
  15. ^ Roth, Emma. "Meet the companies trying to keep up with ChatGPT". The Verge.
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  27. ^ a b Wiggers, Kyle. "You raises $25M to fuel its AI-powered search engine". TechCrunch.
  28. ^ "YOU.com AI is Everything Google, ChatGPT, MidJourney, and Code Writer Plus More". Trenzle.
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  30. ^ You.com (November 30, 2022). "Make AI Art in seconds. For free. In your search engine". Medium.
  31. ^ a b Wheatley, Mike. "You.com creates an app store-based search experience to take on Google". SiliconANGLE.
  32. ^ "Stability AI".
  33. ^ a b You.com (August 4, 2022). "Why we built the best search engine for coders — Introducing YouCode". Medium.
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  35. ^ You.com (October 4, 2022). "New AI tools every developer should use in 2022". Medium.
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  39. ^ Smith, Colin. "You.Com is a Web Search Competitor with Integrated Widgets". Trend Hunter AI.
  40. ^ MacManus, Richard. "You.com Launches Dev Search Apps, Including Code Complete". The New Stack.
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