Search engines have been around for decades an indispensable tool for finding information on the Internet. We may be facing the first paradigm shift in nearly two decades, and You.com could be the future, or at least a preview of what it could be.
Of course, predicting technology is a surefire way to make a fool of yourself (Ask Bill Gates, tired of being laughed at for his failed industry predictions, he’s now predicting pandemics), however, two major players in the industry; Bing with OpenAI technology and Google with its own technology seem determined to integrate artificial intelligence to their browsers so probably the future is there and You.com can show us what to expect.
Why You.com could be the future
Let’s start by saying that the page It is a site that integrates several tools, none of which are individually better than the competition.. However, they are good enough that having them all together is worth the hassle of signing up to access all the features.
Google has become unbearable for my taste. The company is a giant advertising agency and, as much as search engine optimization experts insist otherwise, the first results will be the ones that pay the most. And the ones that follow are Youtube videos and promotion of other Google products.
The home screen resembles Google’s, although if you scroll further down the screen, you’ll find promotions for three browser features. At the top of the search engine there is a small menu that gives us access to three of the main functions (Which I will talk about later) and a submenu that allows us to search between three additional ones.
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The search screen is divided into three. On the left side, we have a menu that allows us to select a specific type of search. In the middle, the traditional search results and to the right of the so-called “Applications”. Apps are collections of links from specific sources such as Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Youtube or Reddit. In all cases, You.com applies artificial intelligence to learn from our browsing habits, but it doesn’t remember them for us if we don’t log in.
A great feature is the ability to qualify the result source, prioritizing the most relevant results for us.
Other applications
You write
It is a text writer based on artificial intelligence. You can write different types of content for blogs, essays, emails and social media blogs. We only have a quota of 10 per month for free. He can write in Spanish, although he does it in English first and automatically translates it, so the result is a bit Tarzanian.
YouChat
Everything I said about ChatGPT applies to YouChat. IThe operation is similar and you can ask him questions or ask him to write something. I still think that they have a certain bias towards commonplaces and that other experts have spotted errors and inaccuracies.
imagine
This is a tool that creates 768×768 images based on text instructions you enter. It uses two engines for that; Stable diffusion and medium travel Other generate genital nudity (I am a professional, I have to try all possibilities to report) However, if you put terms that can cause pedophilia directly ignore the search. The ability to change the size and resolution is missing and sometimes the image generation 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 particular programming language, the site will show you code snippets from different sites, plus it gives you the ability to ask Chat.
Among the strengths of the browser are 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 following.