If 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.
You can remove "&fromSearchBar=true" from the address and it will show the results.
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Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#132Here's a comparison between the main search engines:
- https://you.com/search?q=python%20install%20requirements
- https://www.google.com/search?q=python+install+requirements
- https://www.bing.com/search?q=python+install+requirements
Code complete seems like it could be a killer feature, but doesn't seem to work in the above case, whereas it does work in the OpenAI Codex model:
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#133I heard about "you" from one of my friends and wanted to give it a try and it forced me to install chrome plugin. This is a lot of friction for me to try a new search engine. Not sure why you'd force your user to install something just to give it a try.
I was able to use it without installing anything.
I am not. I get the blocking message after performing the search.
Not a great first impression for the Hacker News crowd.
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#134If 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.c…
>> It's tough to go up against a monopoly that controls the browser too?
So the idea was to force people using Chromium/Chrome to install an extension, driving off a huge percentage of power users with the hopes that the every day person (who couldn't even tell you what search engine they use) will adopt the extension without questioning it?
I don't think this is a tough choice. I think it was one you didn't think through at all.
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#135I installed the plugin and it instantly mucked up my chrome profiles. It felt very disconcerting and I instantly removed it.
I imagine most users might not have multiple chrome profiles and so wouldn't notice, but for me it was an instant stop.
What are you doing with profiles? Why does it need to be installed as a plugin?
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#136I found your pitch really interesting, I'd love to try it. I, however, refuse to install an extension and change my default search engine just to be allowed to type in a search query. I'm sure you have some "growth hacking" reason for this that is compelling to you. Maybe you hope that the slight annoyance of switching back will outweigh the inevitable annoyances with a new product like this. It does come off as user…
yeah, i installed the extension and it immediately mucked with my chrome profiles. thanks, but no thanks. glad i'm not the only one that felt this way.
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#137I for one am just glad there are more competitors entering this space. Google search has been getting worse over the last several years to the point where I can't find what I'm looking for with non-technical searches. Google always tries to figure out my intent, and in doing so, fails miserably 1/2 the time.
Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
#138I found your pitch really interesting, I'd love to try it. I, however, refuse to install an extension and change my default search engine just to be allowed to type in a search query. I'm sure you have some "growth hacking" reason for this that is compelling to you. Maybe you hope that the slight annoyance of switching back will outweigh the inevitable annoyances with a new product like this. It does come off as user…
I might install an extension. I have the DuckDuckGo Privacy extension for instance, and use DDG as my primary search engine. But I use Firefox, and it doesn't seem like this company provides a Firefox addon.
It's an interesting choice to launch a search engine, give reasons for using it instead of Google, but also play into the Google quasi-monopoly by not providing a Firefox addon. Hopefully it's coming soon.
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#139While this is a thing I'd very much like to try I make a point out of not using Chrome && badgering everyone who tries to force me to use it.
Had to use it the other day to verify if a particular bug at a customer system was Firefox-specific (as usual it wasn't) but it meant a four months streak or so was wasted :-/
So no, while this is really interesting it still has to be even more interesting for me to allow that piece of modern spyware to run on my machine.
(Some might think I'm to harsh here but my understanding is Chrome is almost as much spyware as much as the famous Bonzibuddy that we struggled with earlier this millenium, only somewhat less buggy ;-)