You.com

You.com sits on the line between search engine and chat, and it makes you choose which side you are on. A mode selector lets you pick a quick cited answer or a deeper research run that fans out across more sources and takes longer to assemble, so the interface trades latency for thoroughness on demand. Answers carry source citations and often pull in structured widgets, weather, code, charts, rendered alongside the prose rather than buried in links. A custom-assistant builder lets you wire your own scoped agent. The breadth is the problem too: with several modes, a sources panel, and embedded apps competing for the same screen, the experience can feel cluttered, and which mode fits a given question isn't always obvious up front.