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You.com is a search engine that summarizes the best of the Internet for you, with no ads and great privacy.

Older page, not redone yet. I wrote this in February 2023. I’m redoing these pages one by one, with my own screenshots and my verdict; this one’s still in the queue.

You.com
You.com

What is You.com

Type
Search engine
Updated on
Feb 14, 2023

You.com is the only search engine on the market that you can customize. It also summarizes the best parts of the Internet for you, with no advertising to invade your privacy. With You.com you have complete control over the results you want to see and how private you want to be. They offer two modes:

  • Private mode: no data collection.
  • Personal mode: our artificial intelligence will help you find the most relevant apps, and you can customize the apps and feeds you want to see.

In either mode, You.com never sells your data. They also ensure that they do not track you on the Internet and do not use cookies.

How do you choose the order of the content you see?

It’s based on a combination of relevance and your personal preferences if you’ve set them in personal mode. And its artificial intelligence updates frequently based on your feedback.

Your search assistant: YouChat

YouChat is an AI-powered conversational search assistant developed by You.com that uses a language model developed by You.com. It is designed to provide accurate, natural-sounding explanations, cited sources, and interactive applications on various topics. The AI can answer general questions, explain things, suggest ideas, translate, summarize text, write emails and write code for you. It is powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, allowing you to have human-like conversations.

How does YouChat work?

YouChat uses machine learning to understand user intent and query and assist in a wide range of tasks, providing detailed explanations and discussions on a wide range of topics. It is available on every search and is free of charge. Simply type a question or request in the box and watch how the bot responds. To improve the accuracy of responses, you can use prompts that give the bot more context about what you are trying to accomplish. Some general tips include:

  • Use precise and clear prompts.
  • Avoid long sentences with multiple subpoints; instead, use short, easy-to-understand sentences.
  • Ask specific questions and explain the context of the question to generate better responses.
  • Be careful with the choice of words in the prompts, use words that are easy to understand and avoid jargon or slang.
  • Avoid asking questions with yes or no answers or very general questions, try to ask more specific questions

Each YouChat chat is unique to you. While some of the most used topics on YouChat have been food, cooking, art and web development, you can use YouChat for whatever topics interest you most. Here are some sample questions you can ask:

  • What do you think about [topic]?
  • What is most important to you in [topic]?
  • What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in [topic]?
  • How do you approach [topic]?
  • What have you learned from your experience with [topic]?
  • What do you think is the best way to solve [issue]?
  • What advice would you give to someone just starting out with [topic]?
  • What do you think the future of [topic] will be?
  • What would you like more people to know about [topic]?

How are YouChat and ChatGPT different?

YouChat is different from other artificial intelligence chat platforms like ChatGPT in several ways:

  1. It is powered by You.com and incorporates large language models and YouApps (custom apps) that provide multimodal results, such as video, image, or graphic.
  2. It cites sources of information that you can verify by clicking on the citation link.
  3. It has up-to-date information from the Internet, allowing you to get the most accurate information from current web search results.
  4. And, of course, YouChat is free.

Have you used You.com? Tell me how it went

What worked for you and what didn’t. Your experience helps the next person who lands here unsure more than any review page. I read every one before publishing.

Write my review
Your rating

What worked for you and what didn’t. No links.

Whatever you want published. No email needed.

What I keep: your display name, your text, your rating, what you use it for and the date, to publish them once reviewed. No email. Against spam, Cloudflare Turnstile checks you are human and I keep a keyed, one-way hash of your connection (never the IP itself) for 30 days. Anything not published is deleted 30 days after it is reviewed; published items stay while the page exists or until you ask me to remove them. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. Privacy policy.

I read every one before it goes up. No links, insults or reviews from the vendor itself.

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Got a question? Ask me

About You.com, its plans or whether it fits what you need. I’m Miguel Ángel, and I’ll answer you myself, right here.

Write my question

Whatever you want to ask or tell me. No links.

Whatever you want published. No email needed.

What I keep: your display name, your text and the date, to publish them once reviewed. No email. Against spam, Cloudflare Turnstile checks you are human and I keep a keyed, one-way hash of your connection (never the IP itself) for 30 days. Anything not published is deleted 30 days after it is reviewed; published items stay while the page exists or until you ask me to remove them. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. Privacy policy.

I read every one before it goes up. No links, no insults.