You.com allows you to bring the best parts of the internet into your search experience. You.com makes it faster than ever to translate an intent into an action, a question into an answer.

You.com gives people back their most precious resource — time. The people who use You.com will get to spend time on things that matter most to them— their hobbies, their families, and their communities. We believe in bringing more trust, kindness and facts to the internet.

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. Also, the advertisements we may display will be private ads and won’t impact your privacy. You always see the most relevant results for your query in the web results.

You.com gives you the option to choose between a truly customized search experience or an entirely private one. Our incognito mode offers the most private search experience of any search engine. In incognito mode, You.com does not track your IP address or record even anonymized queries.

While we do have to send anonymized query data to Microsoft, it comes from the You.com IP address, so it doesn’t have any connection to you. Whether you’re in incognito mode or personalized mode, You.com never sells your data to advertisers or follows you around the rest of the internet.

If you’re not in incognito mode, we do send your IP address to partners to get localized results, for example when you’re searching for “restaurants near me” or “weather”. You want the restaurants that are actually near you, or the weather that’s where you are. We do send the minimum amount of information needed to get you the best results — which is your IP address. If you don’t want that, you need to be in incognito mode and rephrase your query. That is the difference between convenience in personalized mode, where we make it easy for you, and incognito mode.

Currently, You.com doesn’t include ads in our search results. None of the results you’re seeing get preferential treatment due to advertising. We may experiment with query-dependent advertising in the future: You look for an air compressor – you may see an air compressor ad. But it won’t be linked to you or invade your privacy. However, none of the ad platforms we work with will invade your privacy. We will never follow you around the Internet or sell your data.

You.com currently gets revenue through affiliate links. We earn a part of the profit for some of the products in our catalog.

Affiliate relationships do not affect the way we display or rank products in any way.

Setting your preferred sources allow 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’ve preferred sources or not.

You.com offers a default list of sources with the aim of balancing popularity, comprehensiveness and ease of use. We can’t show every source since that would be overwhelming.

You.com’s default news sources list is based on research from AllSides. Given a core company value of “facts”, our team chose to display more neutral sources in the list.

Don’t see a source you like? You can always search for sources in the Preferred Sources modal that aren’t displayed in the default list. You’ll find we have a huge 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].

SafeSearch filters webpage results for adult content. The default is Moderate, which returns webpages with adult text, but not adult 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.

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

We’re currently working on that system a bunch.

That’s a great suggestion. We’ll add it to our roadmap if it’s not already on there.
Here are a couple of cool examples that are coming in the future:

– Stocks
– Github
– Sports

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

We’ll roll out personal pages in a few months. Joining You.com’s private beta will help you be higher on the list to get your username first. Stay tuned; we’ll ping you in the next few months.

The Chrome extension only changes your default search engine – it has no other permissions.

You.com aims to make your life easier and save you time by summarizing the web for you, and creating a customizable search experience with the option to preference sources to your unique likes and dislikes. The core values of You.com are kindness, facts and trust. With our focus on privacy and keeping your data safe comes trust. We want to embrace kindness by bringing the best parts of the web to you. This kindness comes from only featuring private ads on our platform, and our focus on creating a truly unique experience that will save you time and make your search experience simpler and better.