richardsocher

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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   We are hiring at you.com - a new search engine that cares about users' choice, privacy and time with a particular focus on developers. Our jobs are all remote and can be found here: https://jobs.lever.co/you In terms o
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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   Agreed with below: you.com is particularly good for coding stuff, eg https://you.com/search?q=sort+dictionary+by+value+python+des...
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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   Yea. Reddit is a super useful content island. The idea that folks prefer certain such content island was one of the many reasons we started you.com (other than privacy, time saving, developer focus, etc) We are the only search engine that a
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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   Would love to hear your thoughts on you.com We're trying to innovate on various aspects of search, design, UX, AI, etc.
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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   Hey. 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
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   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 othe
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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   disclaimer: I started you.com, a private search engine with summarization. I've seen many users complain about Google's quality and wanting to have some control over their sources. That's why we added source preferences as a
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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   If you get an account on you.com you can set that preference once and your preferred sites will always come up higher.
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   by richardsocher 5y ago

   Unless he models are recursive neural networks :)
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    you.com supports many of the standard operators and has specific reddit, stackoverflow, MDN apps for developers.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    You can set that once on you.com and then it will keep that preference and show you reddit results whenever relevant.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks for trying. You are right. It will take some time to earn that trust. We dropped the requirement.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks for your feedback. Makes sense. We dropped the requirement and now can more easily share some differentiated searches like: https://you.com/search?q=%23send%20sms%20in%20twilio&safe_se... or https://y
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    I understand it better now that the worry is also about the future of the extension. The requirement is gone. Thanks for your feedback :)
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Hey. Thanks. We got lots of love in other places like Twitter, LinkedIn, ProductHunt, Facebook and others. So that made the launch an overall big success :) The only purpose of the extension is to make it convenient and easy to change you
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    I love that DDG exists but they do write: "We also save searches" here: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy Our incognito mode does not.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks for your feedback. That's helpful. Private ads worked for DDG to some degree but we think it's not the most creative idea. We've just launched our MVP version this week and haven't implemented these other more cre
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Agreed. We'll implement new more anonymous sign up options in the future. It's just our first public beta release... maybe too soon for hackernews?
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks for your feedback. I agree. Our first beta, especially with massive traffic right now, is too slow. We'll work on speed. Better, better, never done.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Great deep questions :) 1. The driving force behind neural net architecture choice right now is hardware architecture. The model that can be trained with more data and more parameters, will win over any other model. Parallelization is amazi
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Yea. All sources and apps can be preferred or disliked and that will impact the ranking. StackOverflow might be more popular :) You can test your json files to see if they're valid via the json checker app.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks a bunch. We had so much positivity on all other platforms but things here did get very toxic and personal - which was a first for me :( We still listen to our users and dropped the extension requirement. Folks assume a lot of bad int
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    The extension has no read access (Chrome tells you its permissions). It really doesn't track. We'll open source it to show. We hoped it would be more convenient but other extensions are so sketchy that generally people hate all of
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks so much for your feedback. Those are some great suggestions that we will take to heart and work on. Yes, content quality is the main goal.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks. Yea. We hear you and dropped the requirement. Keep you feedback coming.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Thanks for your feedback :) We changed it and the extension is not required anymore.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    That's a great suggestion! It's very high on our feature backlog and we'll add it soon :)
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Yea. We listened, and adjusted and you now can do a search in all browsers and settings and without the extension :)
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Right. Have you tried the private mode (top right dropdown)? Like DDG we proxy everything in that mode. It's a bit slower so we haven't done it in default mode yet.
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    by richardsocher 5y ago

    Yap, I listen. The Chrome extension requirement is gone and we are fully open in all browsers now. Thanks for your feedback.