We are currently focused on building the best possible search experience. We will explore monetization ideas in the future, and we look forward to your feedback in that process.

You.com has no ads at the present time. None of the results you see get preferential treatment due to advertising. We will never have targeted, privacy-invading ads. We will never follow you around the Internet or sell your data. We may have private (i.e. query-dependent) ads in the future. For example, if you search for an air compressor, you may see an air compressor ad, but it won’t be linked to you and it won’t invade your privacy.

You.com currently gets (a tiny amount of) revenue through affiliate links. We earn a part of the profit for some of the products in the Walmart app. Affiliate relationships do not affect the way we display or rank products in any way, and we plan to keep it that way.

It’s based on a combination of relevancy and your personal preferences if you’ve set them in personal mode.

We are currently working on that system heavily, and our AI is updating frequently based on your feedback.

You.com is a search engine that summarizes the best parts of the Internet for you, without ads and with great privacy. Our AI will help you find the most relevant results from the web and apps that you can sort and prioritize for optimum search experience. We believe that you should control your search: your privacy, results, and time. 

Private. We don’t store any sensitive data. The only data we store is used to improve your search and never sold or distributed to third parties.

Customized. Signing in to You.com will give you control over what types of websites you want to see in your results. Over time, search results get better and better with the help of AI and your preferences.

Summarized. Websites and sources are presented as “Apps” on the search results to discover answers at a glance, dive deep into specific findings, or take action directly from search results. The novel interface enables both vertical and horizontal scroll to see more with fewer clicks.

You.com is the only search engine on the market that you can customize. It also summarizes the best parts of the Internet for you, without advertisements that invade your privacy. With You.com you have complete control of the results you want to see and how private you want to be. We offer two modes:

Private mode: Zero data collection

Personal mode: Our AI will help you find the most relevant apps, and you can customize apps and sources you want to see.

In either mode, You.com never sells your data. We also don’t track you across the internet and don’t have cookies. 

We are currently focused on building the best possible search experience. We will explore monetization ideas in the future, and we look forward to your feedback in that process.

You.com has no ads at the present time. None of the results you see get preferential treatment due to advertising. We will never have targeted, privacy-invading ads. We will never follow you around the Internet or sell your data. We may have private (i.e. query-dependent) ads in the future. For example, if you search for an air compressor, you may see an air compressor ad, but it won’t be linked to you and it won’t invade your privacy.

You.com currently gets (a tiny amount of) revenue through affiliate links. We earn a part of the profit for some of the products in the Walmart app. Affiliate relationships do not affect the way we display or rank products in any way, and we plan to keep it that way.

We believe in both protecting the natural environment as well as minimizing our impact upon it. As a result, we have partnered with Sustain.Life to become a carbon neutral workforce. By using nature-based solutions, such as reforestation of kelp forests, You.com offsets its carbon emissions.

Our carbon neutral workforce claim is based on average 2018 trade-adjusted U.S. per capita emissions. It includes all full-time employees for the period from January 1 – December 31, 2021. We offset full-year 2021 air travel emissions based on average U.S. emissions per business traveler according to 2019 data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation.

You.com will revise the above data as it becomes officially available.

We currently don’t offer a feature to create email address such as [email protected]you.com, but you can still create an account with You.com using any email address here.

Our mission is to make the world’s information useful for you. We aim to help our users succeed with every search. Our core values include trust, facts, kindness, and user success.

Our aim is to make your life easier by summarizing the web for you, eliminating the need to open multiple tabs. We’ll also allow you to define your preferred sources, and whenever possible, show you results from the sources you prefer first— saving you time.

Each of the rows represents one search app. These apps form an interface to your digitial life.

Currently, we have no ads. We have publicly committed to never offer privacy-invading targeted ads, but we may explore private ads in the future.

See “How does You.com protect my privacy?” for how our privacy compares to other search engines. 

We have a list of over 150 You Apps, which can be found here.

You.com does not offer an API for search or chat at this time. However, we are considering creating one in the future. If you would like to be notified when this happens, sign up and vote for it here: https://yousearch.canny.io/feature-requests/p/api-for-search .

To make You.com your home page on Chrome:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Click on Appearance.
3. Enable Show home button.
4. Select Enter custom web address and enter https://you.com/.
5. You should now be able to click on the home icon to go to You.com.

To make You.com your home page on Microsoft Edge:

1. Open Microsoft Edge, select Settings and more > Settings.
2. Select Appearance.
3. Turn on Show home button.
4. You can either choose New tab page or select Enter URL for a page that you want to use as your home page.

There are instructions for every browser here. (Unfortunately, Safari doesn’t let you properly change your default to You.com.)

Also, after you make You.com your default, your browser may suggest to “Change it back”. 

Please click on “Keep it”. 🙂

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We recommend installing the GoFullPage extension. It will let you take a full-page screenshot of our results with one click. You can then share it on social media.

You.com never sells your data to advertisers or follows you around the internet.

You.com gives you the option to choose between a customized search experience through personal mode or an entirely private one through our private mode. Our private mode offers the most private search experience of any search engine. In private mode, You.com never stores your queries, preferences, or locations. That also means that localized queries (such as “best restaurants near me”) won’t work. In private mode, we only save whether the service is used at all, in order to prevent attacks and misuse of our servers.

In private mode, while we do have to send anonymized query data to Microsoft, Yelp, weather services, and other apps, these queries come from the You.com IP address, so these partners won’t know who the query originated from.

Even in personal mode, we strive to only store the minimal data necessary to make your experience better.

Read our extended post on privacy here .

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You.com had two extensions. The first changes your default search engine to you.com and has no read access.

Download here.

The second uses those permissions to direct your search to your selected search engine.

Download here.

This extension is open source. View the code here .  

You can verify permissions for each one during the installation when it lists its requirements.

You.com does not use any external trackers, such as Google Analytics. Our personal mode sets cookies to enable authentication and customization of your search profile. All these cookies are first-party cookies and are not used to track you around the web. They only enable You.com’s customization features. We don’t use any cookies in private mode.

It may change the results for some of the integrations. Weather, for instance, may not know where you are.

Setting your preferred sources allows us to rank your search results according to your preferences. You will always get a list of all the results that are relevant to your query, whether you have set your preferred sources or not.

SafeSearch filters webpage results for adult content. The default is Moderate, which returns webpages with adult text, but not adult or Not Safe For Work (NSFW) images or videos. The Off mode returns webpages with adult text and images, and the Strict mode filters out any webpage with adult text, images, or videos.

As a small startup, we can currently only support English and U.S.-focused apps. However, we hope to eventually support all of the world’s languages and regions. Nonetheless, You.com will be available in all regions.

We are excited to hear that you are interested in helping us to advance our mission and look forward to hearing from you! Please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/you. 

You.com never shares your data with third parties. If you’d like to delete your profile and your data you can email us at [email protected] and we will promptly take care of it.

YouWrite is an AI-powered writing assistant available on You.com that can help you generate copy, no matter your level of experience. Whether you’re struggling with writer’s block or just looking for a way to improve your overall writing style, YouWrite can help. Simply input any word, phrase, or sentence into the app and watch as it transforms into new copy.

YouWrite uses a large neural network machine learning model to create human-like text. The model is trained on a large body of real-world texts to develop realistic and natural-sounding sentences.

The basic plan costs $3.99/month and the plus plan costs $7.99/month. The basic plan allows for 250 writings per month and the plus plan allows for 1,000 writings per month. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in a custom enterprise plan. It is currently only available to buy in the United States and Canada.

Subscriptions start immediately after purchasing and will automatically renew on the same day at the same time of the following month.  

Example: If you start a subscription on January 31, 2023, your subscription will renew on February 28, March 31, April 30, May 31, and so on. Notice it defaults to the max date of a month if a specific month does not have as many days.

Unused generations do not rollover to the following month.

You can cancel at any time by emailing [email protected] Make sure to include cancel in the subject line and to send the email at least 24 hours before renewal time. If you cancel, you still have the remainder of your subscription month to use your generation.

YouWrite is available by going directly to you.com/write or you.com/youwrite. There is also a quick link to it on the You.com homepage at the top. You can also find the YouWrite tab on the left side of the search results page.

You.com is the search engine that puts you in control of your time, sources, and privacy. But, we’re more than a search engine — we’re a do-engine, meaning we think you should be able to search less and do more. You can use You.com to quickly find what you need without worrying about being tracked or bombarded with ads. Plus, our unique features like YouWrite make it easy for you to get things done in one place.

Yes. Each output from YouWrite is unique, but you should always do your own fact-checking, verification, and editing. After all, it’s an AI-powered writing assistant, not a replacement. At the moment, YouWrite does not utilize an official plagiarism checker. This is a feature we hope to launch in the future.

YouWrite is built on a large natural language model. We cannot guarantee that it will always be accurate. You should always do your own fact-checking.

Yes we hope to add more features in the future! We’d love to hear your ideas regarding what you would like to see.

We always welcome feedback, and we appreciate hearing from you. You can reach us at [email protected]. Be sure to include feedback in the subject line.

This FAQ was written with the help of YouWrite

You.com offers a default list of sources to balance popularity, comprehensiveness, and ease of use. We can’t show every site on the internet since that would be an overwhelmingly long list. We are currently focused on the U.S.

You.com ’s default news sources list is based on research from AllSides . Our search engine displays more neutral sources in the list supporting our core company value — facts.

Don’t see a source you like? You can always search for sources in the Preferred Sources mode that aren’t displayed in the default list. You’ll find that we have a wide variety of sources to select from for web, shopping, news, and more.

Feel free to suggest sources for You.com to add to our list by contacting the You.com team at [email protected] or via our Slack workspace here. We look forward to hearing from you!

There are instructions for every browser here . (Unfortunately, Safari doesn’t let you properly change your default to https://you.com/You.com .)

Also, after you make You.com your default, your browser may suggest to “Change it back”. 

Please click on “Keep it”. 🙂

SafeSearch filters webpage results for adult content. The default is Moderate, which returns webpages with adult text, but not adult or Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) images or videos. The Off mode returns webpages with adult text and images, and the Strict mode filters out any webpage with adult text, images, or videos.

Check out the documentation at docs.you.com.

If you have any immediate questions or just want to stay connected, please consider joining YouClub, our discord developer community .

Visit docs.you.com to get started with the documentation.

If your data is ready to populate the app, you can build it in less than 45 minutes on editor.you.com .

If you need help, or just want inspiration, join the developer community: YouClub, our discord developer community 

Yes. Multiple apps can be submitted via the Developer Dashboard.

To get started, visit the official documentation at docs.you.com .

If you have any immediate questions, please consider joining the YouClub, our discord developer community .

We’ll respond via email as best we can. We may be experiencing high volumes of submission so please be patient. We’ll try our best to respond within 14 business days.

If you have any immediate questions, please consider joining the YouClub, our discord developer community.

Yes, You.com has an app available on iOS and Android! The You.com app is the browser and search engine you control — your time, sources and privacy. Choose what you want to see, without ads or trackers.

If you are a member of the media, you can reach us at [email protected] .

We are excited to hear that you are interested in helping us to advance our mission and look forward to hearing from you! Please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/you.

The You.com Slack workspace is a great way to provide feedback and have direct communication with the You.com team.

You can join this workspace here. 

You.com offers a default list of sources to balance popularity, comprehensiveness, and ease of use. We can’t show every site on the internet since that would be an overwhelmingly long list. We are currently focused on the U.S.

You.com’s default news sources list is based on research from AllSides. Our search engine displays more neutral sources in the list supporting our core company value — facts.

Don’t see a source you like? You can always search for sources in the Preferred Sources mode that aren’t displayed in the default list. You’ll find that we have a wide variety of sources to select from for web, shopping, news, and more.

Feel free to suggest sources for You.com to add to our list by contacting the You.com team at [email protected] or via our Slack workspace here. We look forward to hearing from you!

It’s based on a combination of relevancy and your personal preferences if you’ve set them in personal mode.

We are currently working on that system heavily, and our AI is updating frequently based on your feedback.

To make You.com your home page on Chrome:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Click on Appearance.
3. Enable Show home button.
4. Select Enter custom web address and enter https://you.com/ .
5. You should now be able to click on the home icon to go to You.com .

To make You.com your home page on Microsoft Edge:

1. Open Microsoft Edge, select Settings and more > Settings.
2. Select Appearance.
3. Turn on Show home button.
4. You can either choose New tab page or select Enter URL for a page that you want to use as your home page.

There are instructions for every browser here. (Unfortunately, Safari doesn’t let you properly change your default to You.com.)

Also, after you make You.com your default, your browser may suggest to “Change it back”. 

Please click on “Keep it”. 🙂

You.com never sells your data to advertisers or follows you around the internet.

You.com gives you the option to choose between a customized search experience through personal mode or an entirely private one through our private mode. Our private mode offers the most private search experience of any search engine. In private mode, You.com never stores your queries, preferences, or locations. That also means that localized queries (such as “best restaurants near me”) won’t work. In private mode, we only save whether the service is used at all, in order to prevent attacks and misuse of our servers.

In private mode, while we do have to send anonymized query data to Microsoft, Yelp, weather services, and other apps, these queries come from the You.com IP address, so these partners won’t know who the query originated from.

Even in personal mode, we strive to only store the minimal data necessary to make your experience better.

Read our extended post on privacy here.

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You.com had two extensions. The first changes your default search engine to you.com and has no read access.

Download here.

The second extension uses those permissions to direct your search to your selected search engine.

Download here.

This extension is open source. View the code here .  

You can verify permissions for each one during the installation when it lists its requirements.

You.com does not use any external trackers, such as Google Analytics. Our personal mode sets cookies to enable authentication and customization of your search profile. All these cookies are first-party cookies and are not used to track you around the web. They only enable You.com’s customization features. We don’t use any cookies in private mode.

It may change the results for some of the integrations. Weather, for instance, may not know where you are.

Setting your preferred sources allows us to rank your search results according to your preferences. You will always get a list of all the results that are relevant to your query, whether you have set your preferred sources or not.

Log out, click on “Don’t remember your password?” in the login page, and then reset it via email.

SafeSearch filters webpage results for adult content. The default is Moderate, which returns webpages with adult text, but not adult or not safe for work (NSFW) images or videos. The Off mode returns webpages with adult text and images, and the Strict mode filters out any webpage with adult text, images, or videos.

Joining You.com‘s beta will help you be higher on the list to get your username first. We are first focused on making the search great, but other features will come in the future. Stay tuned!

You.com never shares your data with third parties. If you’d like to delete your profile and your data you can email us at [email protected] and we will promptly take care of it.

Our aim is to make your life easier by summarizing the web for you, eliminating the need to open multiple tabs. We’ll also allow you to define your preferred sources, and whenever possible, show you results from the sources you prefer first— saving you time.

Each of the rows represents one search app. These apps form an interface to your digital life.

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You.com never sells your data to advertisers or follows you around the internet.

You.com gives you the option to choose between a customized search experience through personal mode or an entirely private one through our private mode. Our private mode offers the most private search experience of any search engine. In private mode, You.com never stores your queries, preferences, or locations. That also means that localized queries (such as “best restaurants near me”) won’t work. In private mode, we only save whether the service is used at all, in order to prevent attacks and misuse of our servers.

In private mode, while we do have to send anonymized query data to Microsoft, Yelp, weather services, and other apps, these queries come from the You.com IP address, so these partners won’t know who the query originated from.

Even in personal mode, we strive to only store the minimal data necessary to make your experience better.

Read our extended post on privacy here.

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You.com never sells your data to advertisers or follows you around the internet.

If you’re not in private mode, we do send your IP address to some partners when you query for localized results, such as “restaurants near me” or “weather here”. For these types of queries, we send the minimum amount of information needed to get you useful results, which is your IP address. If you don’t want your IP address shared for these types of queries, you would need to be in private mode and then rephrase your query.

We would love to hear from you. Please contact us at [email protected].

No. There are currently two extensions made by you.com:

1. You.com
2. You.com | Search, chat, and create with AI

The first doesn't require any access. It simply changes your default search engine to you.com.

Download here.

The second is less privacy focused. It requires more permissions to direct your search to your selected search engine such as YouCode, YouChat or Google.

In spirit of our principles of trust, facts and kindness, we have made this extension open source. View the code here, including how we're using these enhanced permissions.

You can verify permissions for each one during the installation when it lists its requirements. We do not ask for any permission that is not needed to fulfill the single purpose of the extension. 

Below are the justifications of why we need each permission.

• declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess: Needed to forward the user to the appropriate search engine (the one the user selected) in the UI.
• storage justification: Storage is required to store the current default search engine.
• Host permission justification: Host is needed to forward the user to the appropriate search engine (the one the user selected) in the UI.

Download here.

You.com does n ot use any external trackers, such as Google Analytics. Our personal mode sets cookies to enable authentication and customization of your search profile. All these cookies are first-party cookies and are not used to track you around the web. They only enable You.com’s customization features. We don’t use any cookies in private mode.

It may change the results for some of the integrations. Weather, for instance, may not know where you are.

Setting your preferred sources allows us to rank your search results according to your preferences. You will always get a list of all the results that are relevant to your query, whether you have set your preferred sources or not.

You.com never shares your data with third parties. If you’d like to delete your profile and your data you can email us at [email protected] and we will promptly take care of it.

YouChat is an AI-powered conversational search assistant developed by You.com that utilizes a language model developed by You.com. It’s designed to provide natural-sounding accurate explanations, cited sources, and interactive apps on various topics. The AI can answer general questions, explain things, suggest ideas, translate, summarize text, compose emails, and write code for you. It is powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, allowing you to have human-like conversations.

To start using YouChat, simply sign up for an account.   

YouChat is built off of the combination of existing large language models and our in-house technology. 

YouChat is an AI that utilizes machine learning to understand user intent and query and assist with a wide range of tasks, provide in-depth explanations and discussions on a wide range of topics. It is available on every search and free to use. Simply type a question or request into the box and watch as the bot replies. To improve the accuracy of responses, you may utilize prompts that give bot more context to what you are trying to accomplish. Some general tips include:

• Use precise and clear prompts
• Avoid long sentences with multiple subpoints, use short and easy-to-understand sentences instead
• Ask specific questions and explain the context of the question to generate better responses
• Be mindful of word choice in prompts, use easy-to-understand words and avoid jargon or slang
• Avoid asking questions with yes/no answers or very general questions, try to ask more specific questions. 

Prompts are short text pieces that help guide a language model to generate more accurate and relevant responses. By providing a prompt, you can focus YouChat on a specific topic and reduce the likelihood of getting irrelevant or nonsensical results. Longer, more creative prompts can help you get more accurate results by providing the language model with context to work with and by narrowing down the range of possible responses. 

YouChat is currently free! We’re working on improving our chat functionality to create the best AI chat platform possible. Start by creating a You.com account to unlock the full potential of the chatbot's capabilities. You can also help spread the word by sharing it with a friend. Additionally, you can screenshot your favorite responses and chats on social media and tag us @YouSearchEngine with the hashtag #youchat.

Since YouChat is constantly learning from huge amounts of online information, it may sometimes get some answers wrong. The You.com AI is always improving, so it is considered “in beta” for the time being. Use 👍👎 to provide feedback about responses and help us improve the model.  

YouChat is different from AI chat platforms like ChatGPT in a few ways. To start, YouChat is powered by You.com and incorporates large language models and YouApps (custom applications) that provide multimodal results such as video, image, or chart. Second, YouChat cites sources of information that you can verify by clicking on the citation link. Third, YouChat has up-to-date information from the Internet, so you can get the most accurate information from today’s web results. 

To get the most out of YouChat, it is important to be specific (and creative!) when asking questions and to provide relevant context. When switching context, it also helps to start a completely new search rather than continuously prompt YouChat with unrelated context (remember it works based on the previous context you provided). This will help YouChat focus on the task and provide more accurate and relevant responses. Additionally, YouChat can be used to generate text for a wide range of topics, so it can be useful to provide prompts or give it instructions on what kind of text to generate. Finally, since YouChat is constantly learning, it is important to provide feedback on the responses it provides to help it become smarter and more useful. Use 👍👎 to provide feedback about responses and help us improve the model.  

You can send us an email at [email protected], Join our Slack community or submit a request.

Every chat is unique to you! While some of our most frequently-used topics on YouChat have been food, cooking, art, and web development, you can use YouChat for whatever topics interest you the most. Some sample questions you can try include:

• What do you think about [topic]?
• What is the most important thing to you in [topic]?
• What do you think are the biggest challenges or opportunities in [topic]?
• How do you approach [topic]?
• What have you learned from your experience with [topic]?
• What do you think is the best way to solve [problem]?
• What advice would you give to someone just starting out with [topic]?
• What are your thoughts on [topic]?
• What do you think will be the future of [topic]?
• What do you wish more people knew about [topic]? 

There is! Simply download the You.com iOS app or Android app to access YouChat directly from your mobile device. 

YouChat is part of the You.com search engine. Here are complete instructions to make You.com (with YouChat) your default search engine for your preferred web browser. 

The You.com Chrome extension, including the YouChat feature, does not save passwords or browsing history. This extension is open-source and can be found on GitHub. You can check lines 41-44 in the manifest page to confirm that the extension does not have permission to access any personal data. Additionally, the Chrome developer page lists the permissions used by the extension, none of which allow tracking of personal data.