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Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
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Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#32How much was that domain name? That's like prime real estate... that alone is like a billion dollar domain.
> Benioff’s involvement with the startup includes the transfer of the You.com domain name, which he has owned since the 1990s.
Neither he nor the startup would comment on the terms of the URL exchange, and it was not clear whether the transfer formed part of the overall investment. Beyond Benioff’s TIME Ventures, other investors include Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures and Day One Ventures.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/salesforce-ceo-benioff-in...
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#33Shameless plug: https://okeano.com is a search engine that respects your privacy, doesn't require an extension and aims to spend 80% of profits to purchase river interceptors and deploy them to the most polluting rivers in the world.
We have !waves (similar to !bangs) and support natively domain blocklisting.
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#34if they are pushing an extension then they are probably trying to monetize by putting their affiliate code on the url when you go to places that have affiliate programs like Amazon.
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#35I will give it credit for working on firefox with javascript turned off.
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#36If I could pay $5 or $10 (or heck $25) a month for a programmable search engine, then I'm ready. But competing with Google 90% on "their terms" seems super tough. Yes the design is a little different and that's awesome that You.com is experimenting, but I just wish I could pay for this.
How would that look like exactly? Looking for side projects that could change the world, and this looks like a good way to disrupt search.
If I could marry true copilot with google with maybe some sort of memory garden priority setting for things I come back to often (code, packages, docs, etc)....that'd be kinda nice...
gpt3(like ) + search could be interesting but extremely costly for compute, though might actually be a decent reason to build something on blockchain (all users add compute, get paid for the storage, and gpu usage, one big botnet just to handle search).
Just thinking aloud about how one would presumably pull this off.
Ideally a mind/brain search interface would be nice someday, but the privacy concerns is cringy, but maybe something like alexa that listens while I talk to myself and looks at what I'm typing and gleans from that what I might need in terms of looking up stuff when I'm stuck on a coding problem, or if I were writing a novel, or some other creative endeavor.
Or imagine an ai that continually just monitors the screen, and when I'm having trouble w/ a tool like learning Unity3d or some graphics tool, it can glean from the screen I'm on what help I need and suggest things...
I really wish we did have new cool search tools like these in 2021... maybe by 2030 we will.
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#37Shameless plug: https://okeano.com is a search engine that respects your privacy, doesn't require an extension and aims to spend 80% of profits to purchase river interceptors and deploy them to the most polluting rivers in the world. We have !waves (similar to !bangs) and support natively domain blocklisting.
https://www.ecosia.org is a similar project if you're a landlubber, they spend the money planting trees.
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#39If your search engine requires an extension to work and display the results, it's a total non-starter. Cannot suggest this to any non-HN crowd. Good luck.
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 hope we can drop this requirement even in Chrome when we become one of the default options.
If you set your search engine default to http://you.com manually in Chrome with "https://you.com/search?q=%s" you will not need the extension... but for most people convenience wins and well...
It's tough to go up against a monopoly that controls the browser too?
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#40If I could pay $5 or $10 (or heck $25) a month for a programmable search engine, then I'm ready. But competing with Google 90% on "their terms" seems super tough. Yes the design is a little different and that's awesome that You.com is experimenting, but I just wish I could pay for this.
You can do that right now for free with Google ( https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/cse/create/new )