You.com could be the future of search engines

Search engines have been for decades an irreplaceable tool to find information on the Internet. We may be facing the first paradigm shift in almost two decades and you.com it could be the future or at least a preview of what could be.

Of course, making a prediction about technology is a sure way to make a fool of yourself (Ask Bill Gates, tired of being laughed at for his failed predictions about the industry, he now predicts pandemics), however, the two big players in the industry; Bing with OpenAI technology and Google with its own technology seem determined to integrate artificial intelligence to their search engines so probably the future is out there and You.com can show us what to expect.

Why You.com could be the future

Let's start by saying that the site It is a construction site that integrates several tools, none of which individually are better than their competition.. However, they are good enough that having it all together is worth the hassle of having to register to access all the features.

For my taste Google has become unbearable.  The company is a gigantic advertising agency and, as much as search engine optimization experts insist to the contrary, the first results are going to be the ones that pay the most. And, the ones that follow are Youtube videos and promotion of other Google products.

The initial screen is reminiscent of Google's, although if you go further down the screen you will find promotions for three of the search engine's features. At the top of the search engine there is a small menu that gives us access to three of the main functions (Of which I will speak later) and a submenu that allows us to search among three additional ones.

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The search screen is divided into three. On the left we have a menu that allows us to select by specific type of search. In the middle the traditional search results and to the right that of the so-called “Applications”. Applications are collections of links from certain sources such as Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Youtube or Reddit. In all cases You.com applies artificial intelligence to learn from our search habits, but it doesn't remember them for us if we don't log in.

A great feature is being able to qualify sources of results, giving priority to the most relevant results for us.

Other apps

YouWrite

It is a text writer based on artificial intelligence. You can write various types of texts for blogs, essays, emails, and social media blogs. For free we only have a quota of 10 monthly. It can write in Spanish, although first it does so in English and translates it automatically, so the result is a bit Tarzanesque.

YouChat

everything i said about Chat GPT applies to YouChat. ANDThe operation is similar and you can ask him questions or ask him to write things. I still think that they have a certain tendency towards commonplaces and other specialists have detected errors and inaccuracies.

Imagine

This is a tool that creates 768x768 images according to the text instructions you type. For this it uses two motors; Stable Diffusion and Midjourney The second one generates genital nudity included (I'm a professional, I have to try all the possibilities to report) However, if you put terms that can induce pedophilia directly ignore the search. The possibility of varying the size and resolution is missing and sometimes the generation of the image takes a long time.

YouCode

Here we have an ideal option for developers. If you want to find out how to do something in a certain programming language, the site will show you code snippets from different sites, plus it gives you the ability to ask the Chat.

Among the strengths of the search engine are the privacy features and personalization.no. Among the things to improve we can say that the interface is only in English (although it shows results in Spanish) and that the menus do not always work. As I said at the beginning, it is a project under construction that is worth keeping track of.