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This is one of the many problems we're trying to tackle at you.com (full disclosure, I work there). We felt like it's important that you can select your prefer
by richardsocher 5y ago
This is one of the many problems we're trying to tackle at you.com (full disclosure, I work there).
We felt like it's important that you can select your preferred sources and downvote sources you don't like.
For this and other reasons we separate the experience into a private and personalized mode. So you get exactly what you want based on your explicit settings (like StackOverflow code snippets or arxiv papers) and can have hardcore privacy when you want that (where your location isn't used, not even your searches are stored like on DDG).
- gnicholas 5y agoWhat's the business model, currently and in the long run? Also, is this built on top of another search engine's results?
- richardsocher 5y agoHey. We will work on it together with the community this year. Private mode is even more private than DDG so we will likely have to do private ads just like them. But for the personalized experience we have a few ideas that I think are more creative and more aligned with users and privacy but not fully fleshed out yet. We're still a very small team but hoping to ship them this quarter.
- freediver 5y agoCare to explain how is the private mode superior to DDG and what is a purpose of a non-private mode?
- jjulius 5y agoIt's not. When OP first launched his search engine a few months ago, it was pointed out to him multiple times that DDG doesn't seem to communicate with third-parties, but You does even when in private mode. OP avoided that question - and a few others - then and, it appears he's still avoiding it now (he hasn't responded to you in 2 days). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161545#29194124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161545#29194124
- Wavelets 5y agoI’ve had pretty good success with dev related searches on you.com. I like the idea of being able to downvote garbage sources. Who owns the company?