You.com isn’t optimized for answering basic questions the way Google is, especially for queries that require guessing what people want instead of what they literally type. The engine can’t guess what you’re thinking as well as Google Searching “for loop javascript,” for instance, will summon lists of reference pages on Google, but You.com will surface actual plaintext snippets of syntax from sources like W3Schools that you can easily copy and paste. It also includes interesting tools for specific use cases. But the interface encourages looking across a range of sources rather than clicking the first one or two links. Some of these searches - like the Section 230 one - ultimately surface pretty similar results to Google. If I searched “Moonfall” it would favor an IMDb-powered “What to Watch” box for the upcoming Roland Emmerich film, while looking up “infrastructure bill” prioritized a general news grid and media coverage from many different outlets. The categories are also influenced by the context of your search. But I could also opt to see something like a Wikipedia snippet or a series of Reddit results first. When I searched for “ Section 230” on You.com’s pre-launch beta, for instance, it defaulted to showing a box of general “web results” first, including links to Cornell University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The You.com grid encourages comparing sources instead of clicking the first link You can “upvote” and “downvote” specific categories, so when you run searches, you’ll see preferred sources first, neutral searches next, and downvoted sources last. On top of this organizational change, You.com’s big differentiating feature is that it lets people influence which sources they see. The sources include generic categories like “web results” and “news” but also specific sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn, and individual news sites like The New York Times. The service abandons the linear list of links you’ll find in most general-purpose search engines, opting for a grid of answers organized by source. You.com, founded by two former Salesforce employees, is opening today in public beta and announcing a $20 million funding round led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. But that’s not the only way people might navigate the web, and today, a company called You.com is trying something different: a search engine built around sorting and comparing results. Google Search organizes the way billions of people think about facts and data, and for years, it’s been organized around a principle dubbed “one true answer”: the idea that most people are looking for something best answered by a succinct factual snippet.
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