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Title: AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M | VentureBeat
Post by: rcjordan on November 11, 2021, 05:50:34 PM

https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/09/ai-driven-search-engine-you-com-takes-on-google-with-20m/

(Stupid name. Try optimizing for that.)
Title: Re: AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M | VentureBeat
Post by: Brad on November 12, 2021, 12:31:06 PM
Two problems for privacy on this engine:

1. As far as I can tell you have to install a browser extension to see results. 

2. There is a login which I assume is to store your customized list of preferred sources to search. (Your own, self created filter bubble.)  If there is a login, there may well be a trail of what you search for and something for hackers and gov'ts to access.

The filter bubble bit could be good or back.   RC's RSS software creates a filter bubble in a technical sense, but it also filters out dreck and dubious sources.  Plus its so wide ranging that the negatives are pretty mild.  So it al depends on what sources you chose with You.com and what is avaiable.
Title: Re: AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M | VentureBeat
Post by: rcjordan on November 12, 2021, 02:00:41 PM
>RC rss

I also use an extension "Mark Selected Links As Visited" that can be set to mark every link on the page as visited without selecting. Of all the browser privacy ploys, Debbie says this is the most effective.  My browser daily history goes on for miles & miles.
Title: Re: AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M | VentureBeat
Post by: littleman on November 12, 2021, 09:21:36 PM
Quote1. As far as I can tell you have to install a browser extension to see results.

2. There is a login which I assume is to store your customized list of preferred sources to search. (Your own, self created filter bubble.)  If there is a login, there may well be a trail of what you search for and something for hackers and gov'ts to access.

SMH.  Even without thinking about privacy concerns, such a barrier of entry is going to turn a lot of people away.


Title: Re: AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M | VentureBeat
Post by: ergophobe on November 13, 2021, 01:07:58 AM
>>Try optimizing

More to the point, try turning it into a verb.

That was one consideration for Bing and now I find people are always asking me to bing this and bing that to find the answer