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Show HN: Free web search for AI agents via MCP (You.com)

bsparker — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:41:56 +0000

Hey HN — I’m a PM at You.com.

We just made our web search API free to use via MCP, so AI agents can call real-time web search without managing API keys or billing.

If you’re building with Cursor, Claude Desktop, OpenAI, or your own MCP-compatible agent, you can plug in our MCP server and get: • Real-time web results • Structured answers (news, web, RAG-friendly output) • No cost for search via MCP

Docs are here: https://docs.you.com/developer-resources/mcp-server

Would love feedback from folks building agentic workflows: • What’s missing? • What would make this actually useful in production? • Where does search break in your current stack?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082612

Points: 1

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New comment by bsparker in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bsparker — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:42:53 +0000

Hey! I'd love to contribute to this directory. My personal website is https://sparker.co - it's my professional presence where I share thoughts on product development and the tech industry. I work in Product at You.com and am passionate about building great user experiences.

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bsparker — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:57:37 +0000

Are you implying that they are going to be inside of the chat response

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bsparker — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:54:19 +0000

and banksy!

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bsparker — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 01:56:41 +0000

Yeah I guess anything is possible but it takes effort

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bsparker — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:33:55 +0000

I would love to run all of these through DALLE2

New comment by bsparker in "Columbus, Ohio is quickly becoming the Midwest’s tech hub"

bsparker — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:32:07 +0000

Ohio needs to unite the 3 C's and dominate tech, healthcare and insurance, there is so much talent and a little capital goes a really long way.

New comment by bsparker in "Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it"

bsparker — Thu, 19 May 2022 20:03:57 +0000

I'm a product manager working on code.you.com. This is good feedback and an interesting suggestion. We'll work on adding those special characters, variables and casing to make the search better for coding.

We're just getting started but working really hard to make this something special. There is a fairly active slack community if you have any other suggestions and want to share. thx.

New comment by bsparker in "Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it"

bsparker — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:06:12 +0000

Social search has been attempted so many times.

Google tried it in 2009, failed. Microsoft tried it in 2013, failed. Startups across the board have tried it.

I think it is because "social" usually implies to a user that they are searching for a person, not the content they create. And previously, there wasn't a ton of UGC that was relevant to a query.

Disclaimer: I'm a You.com employee working on search.

New comment by bsparker in "Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign"

bsparker — Tue, 03 May 2022 17:41:59 +0000

ActiveCampaign is a huge company, I remember when they were the scrappy new guys

New comment by bsparker in "The next Google"

bsparker — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:44:33 +0000

This is one of the reasons I love working for You.com.

SEO is killing Google and it needs to be addressed before it kills the internet. Having the opportunity to build an app that solves a search, instead of perpetuating a spam system, has been really rewarding... and we're just getting started.

New comment by bsparker in "Hey Google, isn't this black-hat SEO?"

bsparker — Mon, 13 May 2019 11:43:18 +0000

SEO is dead. Nothing matters anymore except personalized SERP.

New comment by bsparker in "“Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”"

bsparker — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 03:42:03 +0000

I’m building this at the moment :)

Forecasting at Uber: An Introduction

bsparker — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:13:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ubr.to/2wQS8aq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17988415

Points: 3

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New comment by bsparker in "Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014)"

bsparker — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:54:29 +0000

Lebron is also a genuinely good human being and as a Clevelander, I wish him the best of luck in LA.

New comment by bsparker in "Aretha Franklin has died"

bsparker — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:33:02 +0000

RIP to the Queen of Soul

New comment by bsparker in "FCC admits it was never actually hacked"

bsparker — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 02:04:13 +0000

So does this have anything to do with the fake comments (left in my name): http://fortune.com/2017/11/29/fcc-and-net-neutrality-check-t...

Computers, Networks and Education – Alan C. Kay – September 1991 [pdf]

bsparker — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:26:14 +0000

Article URL: https://wiredpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/computersnetworksandeducation.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666074

Points: 3

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New comment by bsparker in "Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified"

bsparker — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:50:09 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by bsparker in "Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified"

bsparker — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:46:29 +0000

Pay wall. Anyone have a link to a cached version?