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You.com

You.com is an ad-free, private search engine.

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you.com
Is a
Company
Company
Organization
Organization

Company attributes

Industry
Technology
Technology
Web search engine
Web search engine
4
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
4
Machine learning
Machine learning
26
Deep learning
Deep learning
14
Generative AI
Generative AI
17
Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
B2X
B2C
B2C
18
CEO
Richard Socher
Richard Socher
21
Founder
Richard Socher
Richard Socher
25
Bryan Mccann
Bryan Mccann
25
AngelList URL
angel.co/company/you-com-2
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles...458213-14
Investors
Time Ventures
Time Ventures
25
Day One Ventures
Day One Ventures
27
Radical Ventures
Radical Ventures
28
SV Angel
SV Angel
Sound Ventures
Sound Ventures
Norwest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners
25
Breyer Capital
Breyer Capital
25
Day One Ventures
Day One Ventures
25
Founded Date
2020
4
Total Funding Amount (USD)
45,000,000
20,000,000
Latest Funding Round Date
July 14, 2022
Competitors
Bing
Bing
22
Yahoo!
Yahoo!
23
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo
23
Google
Google
23
Neeva
Neeva
23
Business Model
Subscription19
Advertising20
CTO
Bryan Mccann
Bryan Mccann
24
Latest Funding Type
Series A
Series A
Seed
Seed
Wellfound ID
you-com-2

Other attributes

Latest Funding Round Amount (USD)
25,000,000
Overview

You.com is a private search engine that offers users increased privacy, extensible apps, and personalized results through preferred sources. The company also uses an artificial intelligence-based engine to provide results and helpful summaries of information while avoiding junk, fake reviews, biases, and unhelpful advertising. This helps users find information faster while offering increased user privacy.

You.com was founded by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann in 2020 with the intent of developing a new search tool using artificial intelligence to develop a better consumer-focused search tool.

Search

You.com's search engine is developed to provide users with privacy, protecting user data while browsing the web that is free of tracking and invasive advertising. It offers a multi-dimensional interface with horizontal and vertical scrolling for more information sharing, and searches can be personalized with users' preferred applications.

The search does not store user's search, does not collect feedback, nor does it log analytics of users and their search history; the search engine does not log, store, or share users' IP addresses, does not follow users around third-party sites, and it does not offer search leakage via HTTP referrer headers while also encrypting search results. And users can use You.com in a personal or private mode, with personal offering more personalized search through some history storage and private mode taking away all historical user context.

YouCode

You.com offers a YouCode search, which allows users to search through their favorite sources and use You.com's artificial intelligence to search through preferred coding sources and to help users write code. This feature offers the same privacy features the regular search offers.

YouStudy

You.com offers YouStudy, a search engine developed for students, allowing users to search through preferred sources and applications in one place to find an answer. It also offers trustworthy sourcing to answer student questions in summarizations and is intended to help students learn faster. YouStudy offers the same privacy features as the normal search engine as well.

YouSocial

YouSocial is a social media-focused search option that includes a search of a users' favorite or preferred social media applications in one source and is intended to help users find what they are looking for across social platforms and to see what people are saying on social networks in-browser.

YouChat

YouChat is a ChatGPT-like artificially intelligent chatbot, which is developed to hold conversations and answer questions similar to ChatGPT, but with access to the internet and connected to the You.com search engine to provide users with summarized information through the search engine.

In 2023, You.com introduced a YouChat 2.0, which built on the original YouChat feature. This generative AI search introduced elements beyond text to help answer a question more precisely and to fix some of the difficulties experienced in the initial version of YouChat. The second version combines the conversational, generative AI with community-built applications, to offer interactive experiences with each query. And with YouChat's blended language model, it can serve users with charts, images, videos, tables, graphs, text, or code embedded in responses to user queries, intended to reduce the number of tabs open and to stop users from drifting away from the search engine.

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Funding Rounds

Products

Acquisitions

SBIR/STTR Awards

Patents

Further Resources

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google

Ron Miller

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/former-salesforce-chief-scientist-announces-new-search-engine-to-take-on-google/

Web

December 8, 2020

You.com challenges Google, Microsoft with launch of 'multimodal conversational AI' in search

https://venturebeat.com/ai/you-com-challenges-google-microsoft-launch-multimodal-conversational-ai-search/

Web

February 15, 2023

You.com Launches in Beta As a Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google

https://gizmodo.com/you-com-launches-in-beta-as-a-privacy-focused-search-al-1848023295

Web

November 9, 2021

You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search

Ron Miller

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/you-com-takes-aim-at-google-and-microsoft-with-multimodal-chat-search/

Web

February 15, 2023

You.com wants to remake the search engine

Adi Robertson

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/9/22770614/you-salesforce-startup-search-engine-privacy-information-control

Web

November 9, 2021

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