Say hello to you.

For the past year, I’ve worked very quietly with some of the world’s most brilliant founders, engineers, designers, and product people, and I helped to create you.com from scratch. Today, on November 9th, 2021, I’m excited to announce that we launched the public beta of you.com, the world’s first open search engine platform that summarizes the web, superior privacy choices, 100+ search-apps, actionable results, and personalization through preferred sources. Our CEO and founder Richard Socher had the original idea to create personalized web summaries almost a decade ago. Earlier this year, when Richard assembled the you.com core team, I thought deeply about the most high-impact thing I could do with my skill set as a designer and entrepreneur? I believe that truthful and private search is the most critical application of the Internet, AI, and especially NLP today. With you.com want people to have agency in their information “diet” through personalization and customization and websites of all sizes to have a chance at being on the first page of a search when their content is relevant. I also believe in world-class privacy without having to tradeoff convenience and personalization. We offer a private mode that’s just one click away. No matter what mode you’re in — private or personalized — we’ll never sell our users’ data, follow them around the web, or offer privacy-invading targeted ads. https://you.com also opens up the closed gates of previous search engines by making relevant content readily available through multiple apps. For example, try finding the most relevant content across multiple sources at once. Sources like Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow, or Medium would each need their own search query. On you.com, they are all searchable in one place with one query to allow you to explore a topic from many different angles. We also think you should be able to search less and do more. For example, if you’re a developer, we think you’ll like our StackOverflow and Code Complete apps that help you code faster with quick copy and paste buttons on snippets of code. Give you.com a try, and let me know what you think. I am grateful for your feedback, and I want to continue to build the next generation of searches together.