Ask HN: Is You.com the next type of search engine?

[komape]

I discovered You.com a couple of weeks ago and gave it a try but I'm still unsure of it. The biggest disadvantage is the horizontal scroll but this is just UI/UX. More important are the search results itself.

I wonder if they just use Bing in the background like DuckDuckGo or if they developed their own search engine. Anybody knows more details?

What do you think of You.com?

[DMell]

My current DDG search strategy has evolved to a point where I simply tag the website I think will have the best answer — ie. "My question stack overflow", "my question hacker news", etc.

[komape → DMell]

With Stack Overflow I use the same approach. Unfortunately, DDG shows only one SO result while Google shows multiple. Then I wonder why I don't search directly on the SO site.

[kosasbest]

Landing page needs JS to view the contents, which is a big turn off. If it worked without JS I would attempt to leverage it however.

[Graffur]

It looks like the spit as much information on the screen as possible to make up for lack of accuracy.

[slater]

"Please reload the page, something went wrong."

I'd say, no.

Edit:

"TypeError: navigator.sendBeacon is not a function"