You.com "Then" and "Now"
Updated August 22, 2025:
I've been using You.com since I heard about it in 2020, when it took its first step. Using ChatGPT3.5 API as a foundation wasn't perfect. Still, as the years progressed, the organization began to improve it with tons of new features and then started including other AI Models in its foundation, giving users various options. 
However, there have been a few miss haps here ranging to bugs, files not uploading correctly, or just adding way too many features (valuable features but also changing a lot of things, which made it complicated to find what I needed to look for, like in the settings and clear search history). There was also a problem with their "Cloudflare Security Incident" that blocked me from accessing the web for almost 5 days (Mostly 4 days and a half and I had to painstakingly contact support and give my Cloudflare Ray ID and IP address to address the issue, all while on my You.com Education Plan, all while they were on holiday as my courses opened up). I have used it for many things, such as making planners, researching and coding projects, and cybersecurity projects involving firewall and network configurations within Windows and Linux operating systems. 
I haven't had any trouble with the output and response to my prompts. Don't get me wrong, this is an excellent product and gives me more value than what OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or other AI Solutions or competitors have. But "Bugs fixes, updates, and patches first. New Features later." That's all I am asking for because every time a new feature is introduced for the web version for either MacOS or Windows, it always breaks some features or settings. Or better yet, make a MacOS or Windows Native Application to give many customers a backup/alternative in case the web version goes down or breaks.
Advanced Search and Reasoning feature has been”shoty” as of recently, tried to fact check its response when I asked to use exact phrases from the source's and started noticing frequent hallucinations and facts or other statements that don’t come from the sources it pulls from. Needs an urgent fix.
December 25, 2024
Unprompted review