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One note: You.com seems to include Stack Overflow scrapers in the results. Would be better with those removed. These two results go the same content, one on SO and one scraped from it: https://i.imgur.com/TwvDIiC.png
I 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…
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. We will implement an a/b test and see if we can get rid of the requirement even earlier.
If you set your search engine default to https://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?
You can find more details for every browser setup here: https://youdotcom.notion.site/Make-You-com-your-default-sear...
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I don't use Chrome, I use Firefox. It was confusing for it to ask me to add an extension to Chrome.
Oh. That's odd. It shouldn't ask you for the Chrome install if you're on Firefox. We can't reproduce that bug. What version of FF are you on?
Edit: it badgers me to install it in Chrome even in mobile Safari.
Edit 2: seems there is a search box on top of the page. It works but I didn't notice it initially because
- the page was so intensely focused on getting me to install a Chrome extension (both in Firefox on iOS and Safari on iOS)
- and the placeholder text ("you.com")looked like a decoration initially (try something like "type here" or something)
You should strip the ?ref= from indexed Urls [for multiple reasons].
Here'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: - https://i.imgur.com/0xXdip3.png
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I don't use Chrome, I use Firefox. It was confusing for it to ask me to add an extension to Chrome.
Oh. That's odd. It shouldn't ask you for the Chrome install if you're on Firefox. We can't reproduce that bug. What version of FF are you on?
I also have privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled, maybe the other commenter does too, and that might muck with things.
Just tested and my reported user-agent is: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0"
- the rounded corners remind me of the 2000s, and they kind of hurt my eyes; they take attention away from the text
- I search for some niche CS topics; all the links I see I've seen on other search engines as well ...
- ... which kind of makes this "google with a different layout" and some "categories", not terrible, but also not that different
Now here's a challenge: Do some smart on-the-fly abstractive multi-document summarization and display a fluent mix of text, images and videos on a topic. Like a report. That would be a game changer, I'd think.
If someone can pull this off, that might be you, Richard :)
While 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…
I 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…
