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• By richardsocher 2021-11-0918:43

  Hello All,

  My name is Richard Socher, and I'm the founder of you.com, the world's first open search engine platform that summarizes the web for you. We launched our public beta today, and are excited to share it with you.

  If you're a developer, we have several "search-apps" such as StackOverflow (with code snippets), W3Schools, MDN, Copilot-like Code Completion, json checkers, and more. All of them geared to help you code faster. Let us know if you have other app ideas for how to make your coding life better.

  We believe in superior privacy choices without losing convenience. Our private mode is the most private experience - we don't store your queries or track your clicks or share IP, etc. And even in our personalized experience, we'll never sell your data or follow you around the web and we'll never offer privacy-invading targeted ads.

  We wanted to create a search engine that delivers relevant content, not ads or SEO'd pages, and do it in a whole new interface that puts you in control through personalized preferences. We hope you'll be able to search less and do more.

  Looking forward to your feedback and will be here to answer any questions.

  Thanks! -RS

• By dang 2021-11-0921:24

  Related ongoing thread:

  Is there any point in launching a search engine in 2021? Marc Benioff thinks so - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161545 - Nov 2021 (18 comments)

• By BitwiseFool 2021-11-0919:523 reply

  I'd like to know more about the "built for devs" concept you are presenting to us. What does that mean to you?

  For me personally, I rarely perform site:github.com or site:stackoverflow.com searches in my browser's default search engine. I typically just enter a few keywords and try to make sense of what I find.

  When I personally think of a search engine built for devs, I think of one that parses queries differently from the natural language processing that seems to be all the rage these days. For instance, when I search "?. C#" I want to know what this operator actually is. Instead, the algorithm omits the ?. and just returns the most generic results relating to C#. https://you.com/search?q=%3F.%20C%23&fromSearchBar=true This is true even when I put the "?." in quotes. One of the results is titled "Null coalescing operator" from Wikipedia, but this is actually misleading since ?. is actually the null-conditional operator. The information is there but it is not easy to find.

  The other item on my wishlist for a dev-centric search engine is to be able to persist the main language(s) I am trying to search about. Its mildly tedious to type C3 and then my keywords (..... dammit, C#, this happens ALL the time), in each query to narrow things down and not get javascript results.

  By the_jeremy 2021-11-0921:14

  SymbolHound (http://symbolhound.com/) is the only one I've found that doesn't ignore special characters.

  By richardsocher 2021-11-100:47

  Hey. Sorry for the slow reply. We will open up the platform so people can contribute their own apps to the platform. You can also prefer certain sources and hence have real agency over your results.

  We'll look into the ?.C# query and what can be done better for queries like it. Thanks for your feedback :)

  By vin047 2021-11-101:24

  > I rarely perform site:github.com or site:stackoverflow.com searches in my browser's default search engine

  Built-in site:reddit.com searches would be handy.