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[dead] 3 years ago

It's a pretty good deal. You can get GPT-4 access for a month for free.

When searching for anything related to startups, I often find a lot of unrelated content from blogs or low-quality websites that distract me from what I actually wanted to look for. Being fed up with Google, I started using this niche search engine https://you.com/for/startup that only shows information from a select number of apps and websites (TechCrunch, Crunchbase, AngelList) at once. It's pretty simple and clean.

Here are two example queries:

Earlybird VC: https://you.com/for/startup?q=Earlybird+VC

Simulate: https://you.com/for/startup?q=Simulate

It's a little sad we have to '.edu' filter searches just to not be directed to SEO sites at this point. Kagi's and You.com's searches are really smooth and painless from this perspective. You.com also has built in site filtering which helps a ton.

I personally switched search engines and it has made coding, general searches, and overall just browsing the internet 10x smoother. I tried a couple like DDG, Brave Search, and Kagi. I started using You.com and find the search results just better than Google's. Less SEO sites bogging down search results, website filtering, and optimized results layout.

It is especially frustrating to use when Google while coding. I've noticed an increase in SEO sites on Google that seem to just scrape Q&As from the internet and regurgitate them[0]. I've recently started trying other search engines like DuckDuckGo and You.com and thankfully haven't had any issues with these sorts of sites popping up as results. It makes debugging 10x faster not having to sift through so many fake answer sites.

[0] https://quick-adviser.com/how-do-i-use-google-calendar-in-dj...