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Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by usui »

Hi Richard, how does your organization achieve carbon neutrality? What metrics are available, or how do you know it's accurate?

As a software engineer, this has never been a requirement of me, but I want to start conscientiously working for a company that prioritizes it. I have toyed with the idea of Raspberry Pis, Starlink, and solar panels to host a carbon-neutral Kubernetes cluster.

(P.S. I submitted an application, but regardless will be interested to follow You.com for the upcoming years)

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by richardsocher »

option_greek wrote: post #63
slipperlobster wrote: post #51

I pulled up your main page on Firefox and just did a search for "asd" - testing it out. Scrolling down a bit to images shows me some definitely NSFW images. If the goal is to be used in the workplace since you mention developer-focused "search-apps" then this is a nonstarter for me. Just a heads up.

Oops. I think its worse than NSFW. It seem to fetch some pics of questionable age :(

I'll report it to the Bing image search team.

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by chrisMyzel »

skadamat wrote: post #16

If 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 a programmable search engine look like to you? Would providing what you look for with a) a search query b) tagging what you are looking for on screen on 3 results and c) getting results at scale sent to

you be a programmable search engine? (then --> [1])

[1] https://get-sentinel.io

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by akaij »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #45
hmate9 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a little bit annoying because "y" or "yo" or "you" will always autocomplete to youtube for me.

Does anyone know how browsers decide which to auto-suggest first? Is it merely a function of which domain you've visited the most often?

Firefox uses Frecency: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.frecency.%28visit_type%29Vi...

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by alfonsodev »

mthoms wrote: post #14
nepalvibes wrote: post #7

I 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.

You don't have to use the plugin, just search at the top of the page. The text around the plugin is misleading. Strike 1 IMHO.

I think they know there is more chances you come back to you.com if you are reminded by the extension icon.

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by gergi »

Beyond what others have mentioned about requiring the Chrome extension, I would strongly recommend altering the language in FAQ - "How do I make You.com my default search engine?"

It vaguely references "the monopoly" in ominous tones. This comes across as petulant and distracting. Just focus on the instructions to set it as the default and how to respond to questions that try to change it back.

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by richardsocher »

nabakin wrote: post #52
crummy wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I click the search bar at the top of the page it takes me to the plugin install page.

On mobile I'm able to search no problem. I guess that makes sense though because Chrome extensions on mobile aren't a thing.

Yea. It's not like we're tryin to block users :) We just found that without the convenience of a navbar search - you're ngmi (not gonna make it) as a search engine.

We hope we can drop all restrictions in the future.

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by jimkleiber »

After just seeing a post for a new service called Gallery and thinking of how annoyed I was at Facebook taking over the word meta and Trump taking over the verb to trump, part of me doesn't want this platform to succeed only because of its name. Someone below typed "I heard about 'you'" and it just made me realize how frustrated I am that so many tech companies seem to be repurposing more and more core words into their brand names. I guess Apple and Amazon have been doing it for a while.

Anyone know why this is happening, also feel annoyed by this, and know if there's any end in sight?

Re: Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs

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Post by richardsocher »

DeathArrow wrote: post #58

Do you use GPT-3 to summarize?

We use it to generate code in the code completion app. But sadly, with our values of trust facts and kindness, we cannot rely on large language models to completely generate the results as they often make up facts.
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