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by richardsocher 5y ago
We don't even know. It's not made public anywhere :( Hence our extension requirement for the time being. At least Chromium-based browsers have 5 second extension install/uninstall options whereas in Safari it's several m
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Yea. We debated this one for a while. There's a "regression to the mean" type of thing going on where every other search engine in the last 20 years just looks like a Google knockoff. We found that many different types of use
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Yea. That makes sense. I avoid extensions myself since many of them are super sketch. This one literally changes just one setting and you get the same results if you do it manually. But most web users won't know how to make setting cha
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Hi Soheil. Yea... Requiring the default was a tough choice. You actually can try it out in incognito mode and any other browser. We didn't want to mess with privacy in incognito mode but just found that without the convenience of a na
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by richardsocher 5y ago
You are right to be skeptical of extensions. There are a lot of sketchy ones out there but... Nope. We aren't doing that and not planning to. All the extension does is change one setting. If you set your search engine default to http:
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Great question: We are first ranking apps and then within apps we have some of our own ranking but e.g. web results come from Bing. We have found that when non-web-result-apps trigger in the top 2, we are often as good or better than Google
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Yea... Requiring the default was a tough choice. You actually can try it out in incognito mode and any other non-Chromium browser. But we found that without the convenience of a navbar search, most people won't give it a proper try eit
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Yea... Requiring the default was a tough choice. You actually can try it out in incognito mode and any other browser. But we found that without the convenience of a navbar search, most people won't give it a proper try either way. I ho
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Yea... Requiring the default was a tough choice. You actually can try it out in incognito mode and any other browser. But we found that without the convenience of a navbar search, most people won't give it a proper try either way. I ho
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Hello All, My name is Richard Socher, and I'm the founder of you.com, the world's first open search engine platform that summarizes the web for you. We launched our public beta today, and are excited to share it with you. If you&#
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Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs(you.com)
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Hehe. Have you actually tried some developer queries? or maybe sth like: https://you.com/search?q=software%202.0 You can try it in incognito mode or any non-Chromium browser or set your default manually if the 5 second exte
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by richardsocher 5y ago
Hey sushid, Yea... We found that without the convenience of a navbar search most people won't give it a proper try and stick to the monopoly of Google. Users also told us that once it was their default, they realized it's great (o
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by richardsocher 5y ago
If you're a developer, we have several "search-apps" such as StackOverflow (with code snippets), W3Schools, MDN, Copilot-like Code Completion, json checkers, and more. All of them geared to help you code faster. Let us know i