Search EngineUnited StatesMixed membership

You.com

Search company that pivoted to supplying web search, content extraction and research APIs for AI agents and LLMs, serving over 10 million queries a day. It is one of the small set of vendors whose index decides which pages AI agents can actually retrieve, making it an indirect but real ranking surface.

Why it matters to search

Web Search, Contents and Research APIs used to ground LLMs and agents.

You.com is a search engine based in United States.

Related organizations

6 other search engines, plus others based in United States.

Search EngineUnited States

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Search EngineChina

Baidu's webmaster platform (百度搜索资源平台), providing submission APIs, indexing diagnostics and Chinese-language crawling guidance. It is the required entry point for any site attempting visibility in mainland China's largest search engine, where Google is unavailable.

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Search EngineUnited States

Search engine built on a fully independent index of billions of pages rather than syndicated results, operated by Brave Software. Its independence makes it one of the few alternative indexes SEOs can test against, and it also sells index access via an API used by AI products.

brave.com
Search EngineVietnam

Vietnamese browser and search engine built specifically for Vietnamese users, with local-language handling and a search API for developers. It holds a meaningful share of Vietnamese search and browser usage, so sites targeting Vietnam optimise for it alongside Google.

coccoc.com
Search EngineUnited States

Privacy-focused search engine that combines its own crawling with results licensed from Bing, and publishes its DuckDuckBot crawler documentation. Its refusal to build user profiles removes personalisation from its results, which makes it a useful neutral reference SERP for rank checking.

duckduckgo.com
Search EngineGermany

Not-for-profit search engine founded in Berlin in December 2009 by Christian Kroll, dedicating all profits to tree planting and operating as a steward-owned certified B Corporation. It represents a meaningful share of privacy- and values-motivated European search traffic and, with Qwant, co-founded a European index initiative.

ecosia.org