You.com is a search engine founded by Richard Socher, the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, and Bryan McCann, a former Lead Research Scientist in NLP at Salesforce. It aims to challenge Google's dominance in search by offering a personalized search experience and innovative features.
You.com aims to provide a user-centric search experience and leverage innovative AI technologies to compete with established search engines like Google and Microsoft. The platform showcases a variety of products, such as the chatbot YouChat, OpenAI-powered writing tool YouWrite, and AI-image generator YouImagine.
In addition to these products, You.com also has an open platform that allows external developers and organizations to create custom applications called "Search Apps" for the search results page. Users can customize their search experience by upvoting, downvoting, or blocking these apps. You.com surpassed one million active users soon after its launch and continues to grow its user base. You.com has experienced tremendous growth, with a staggering increase of over 400% in the past six months. This marks a significant milestone in the evolution of you.com, as it aims to empower users and enable them to regain control of their search experience. By doing so, users can save valuable time and personalize their information consumption, search results, and privacy settings according to their preferences.
At you.com, users have the authority to manage the apps and sources of information within the ranked results. They can express their preferences by "liking," "disliking," pinning, or blocking them, allowing for a tailored and curated search experience.
"We are thrilled to offer open access to our platform, empowering others to create innovative, high-quality apps that enable users to achieve more, improve efficiency, and access information swiftly. The days of a single entity controlling our online visibility, profiting from our data, and accumulating vast wealth at the expense of others are over. With you.com, everyone emerges as a winner: users are in charge, obtaining a superior product customized to their requirements, while developers gain exposure and revenue for their valuable contributions," stated Richard Socher, CEO and co-founder of you.com.
One of the key differentiators of You.com is its focus on multimodal search, which allows users to receive answers in various formats beyond text, such as charts, photos, videos, tables, graphs, and code snippets. This approach aims to provide more precise and comprehensive answers to user queries.
Some of the products offered by You.com include:
YouChat: An AI-powered conversational search assistant that can answer complex questions, explain concepts, suggest ideas, translate texts, summarize articles, compose emails, and write code snippets.
YouWrite: An AI writing tool powered by OpenAI's GPT-3 language model. It helps writers, authors, and bloggers overcome writer's block and improve their writing skills by generating personalized content based on key information like text type, target audience, and desired tone.
YouImagine: An AI-powered image-generation tool that utilises models like Stable Diffusion 1.5 and 2.0, and OpenJourney. It allows users to create AI-generated images using text inputs.
YouCode: A platform that provides programmers with quick and easy access to resources like Stack Overflow and GitHub. It offers features such as a search bar that understands plain language, AI code generation tools, code samples, and relevant documentation.
