Kuldeep Paul

Answer engine · You.com

You.com

You.com's own web and news indexes, built by YouBot; also sold through its search APIs.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Operator
You.com
Launched
Nov 9, 2021
Search index
You.com's own web and news indexes, built by YouBot; also sold through its search APIs.Sources: you.com
Crawlers
YouBot — blocked by 10.3% of top sites
Referrer in analytics
you.com
UTM tagging
None added
Ads
No.
Citations
Numbered citations.
Official docs
about.you.com

Questions

What search engine does You.com use?

You.com's own web and news indexes, built by YouBot; also sold through its search APIs.

Which crawlers does You.com use?

You.com relies on YouBot.

How do I track You.com traffic in analytics?

Clicks from You.com arrive with the referrer you.com. Add it to an AI channel in GA4 using a source regex.

Does You.com show ads?

No.

Analysis using this data

  1. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

Other AI engines

ChatGPT · ChatGPT Atlas · Google AI Overviews · Google AI Mode · Gemini · Perplexity · Comet · Claude · Microsoft Copilot · Meta AI · Grok · DeepSeek · Le Chat · Brave Search (Ask Brave) · Kagi Assistant · DuckDuckGo (Duck.ai & Search Assist) · Amazon Rufus (retired)

How to cite this data

This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:

  1. Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
  2. Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/you-com), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
  3. Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
  4. Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
  5. Cite the original source for single figures when you quote one reported number; it is linked in every row.

In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's You.com — AI search engine reference (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). You.com — AI search engine reference [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/you-com

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "You.com — AI search engine reference." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/you-com.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "You.com — AI search engine reference." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/you-com.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026youcom, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {You.com — AI search engine reference}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/you-com}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/you-com">You.com — AI search engine reference</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)