You.com Press Room (alternate sliders – DON’T USE)

A new online search engine, you.com, launched its public beta today, aiming to take market share and search-related revenues from the dominant incumbent. Read more.

You.com, a startup looking to challenge Alphabet Inc’s Google by developing a more customizable search engine, announced on Tuesday a $20 million investment led by the venture fund of Salesforce.com Inc Chief Executive Marc Benioff. Read more.

A new search engine called You.com is challenging Google’s dominance with a promise of better privacy and more elaborate results. Read more.

You.com, which bills itself as the world’s first open search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff with participation from Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures, Day One Ventures, and others. Read more.

Instead of arranging results in a vertical list, you.com presents users with rows of horizontal panels—the company calls them “apps”—grouped by source. Read more.

You.com hopes a combination of summarizing other sites’ results, similar to Google, and a private browsing mode will be enough to lure in casual searchers.

Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, and his co-founders at You.com have been on a mission over the last year to build a different type of search engine, and today the company is releasing a public beta, while announcing a hefty $20 million seed investment. Read more.

Today, a company called You.com is trying something different: a search engine built around sorting and comparing results. Read more.

Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff has been holding onto the “you.com” domain name since 1996. He purchased it in Hawaii while taking a sabbatical from Oracle. Only recently did Benioff stumble upon a project seemingly worthy of the name: You.com. Read more.