Andi - new type of search engine that uses generative AI

Search for the next generation

Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like talking with a smart friend.

Home Page: https://andisearch.com/

Andi uses language models and Generative AI combined with live data to generate answers to questions, and to explain and summarize information combined from the best sources.

Search is broken because of SEO spam, ads, and surveillance capitalism. Andi cuts through the clutter to get you straight to the knowledge you need. It presents results visually in a way that's easy to understand, and protects you from ad tech and distraction.

Andi is bringing a cutting-edge Generative AI Search Engine to the world, backed by Y Combinator, the world's most successful startup accelerator.

Search the Internet with help from a smart AI assistant

Andi is a new type of search engine with an intelligent AI assistant that gives you simple answers to complex questions directly, and gives you tools to stay productive and safe online.

1. Ask complex questions and get direct answers - a "synthesis engine" that combines the best sources to give you a simple answer.
2. Tools to fight spam and bad content
3. Free from ads and tracking
4. Visual results and a distraction-free reader view for articles

Conversational Search

Andi is conversational. It's like messaging a smart friend who answers questions and sends you useful links. It uses a simple chat interface, with a panel to show the full results. It's radically different to any other search engine you've used.

Answering your questions

Question answering is on of Andi's most powerful features. Andi's complex question answering using Generative AI is a ground-breaking experimental technology that often looks like magic. Andi is the first version of what some people are calling "synthesis engines" - a new type of search engine that can answer questions directly, explaining and summarizing information from multiple sources.

Andi can do fast keyword searches like other search engines. But it can also do much more.

You can ask Andi questions like you would a friend who happens to be a smart research expert. The more specific your question and the details you include, the better it will do.

Unlike regular keyword searches, Andi will spend a lot more time to research these question (up to 10+ seconds) and find the exact answer or information if it can, and present it along with the full search results.

You can ask complex or even multi-part questions. Andi does best answering when you ask in regular plain language (not "googlese"). The more specific the question and the more detail you provide, the better the answer will be. Better questions = much better answers.

Try some examples:

• What is the gdp per capita of china vs new zealand?

• how much of the world's electricity supply now comes from wind turbines and solar panels?

• What indicator predicts a recession, and is the US heading for one?

• Why is elon musk considering creating a new social media platform?

• How many refugees have fled ukraine now?

• How did Paul Graham's spam filter work and what technology did it use? Explain to me like a programmer

• How did Paul Graham's spam filter work and what technology did it use? Explain to me simply

Andi's support for different languages with question answering is only very basic right now. We have lots of work to do on internationalization and localization. But just include a question mark ("?") at the end if you'd like to ask Andi to try in another language.

Free from spam, ads and tracking

Andi is free and anonymous. It's ad-free and fights spam. It's private and gives you control. And it gives you only the best and most relevant results. It's a next generation search engine.

• Block distractions - Find what you need and read it safely without ads or tracking.
• Take control of how you view search results.
• Get only pure results - Commercial considerations never affect results or recommendations.
• Trust your search app - We're working to earn your trust. We never sell or share your data. We protect your privacy.
• No ads or spam - No ads, no ad-tech, no tracking. We fight spam.
• Free and anonymous. We don't log or store your searches. We're free and open to everyone.
• Freemium business model - free anonymous searching for everyone forever without limitations, and paid pro and business plans in future. We may add anonymous referral link attribution.
• We will share any revenue with content makers. Money doesn't affect results in any way.

Release status

Andi is a new product in early testing. In tech industry terms, it's not quite a beta version yet, but it's a fairly stable alpha 😂

It's come a long way from our early prototype, but it's not a commercial release intended for full production use yet. But it is pretty cool!

It is undergoing rapid development, and things will break from time to time, although we're trying to reduce the breaking changes now. 😇

Andi already does well at answering questions, finding knowledge, and performing computation or calculations. We have a lot of work to do on shopping and product review searches (still too much spam). Location and place searches are basic but improving. We don't handle maps or directions yet. Image and video searching are basic.

Andi is mostly English-US focused currently. Better international support is on our roadmap.

We don't look at your GPS without permission. By default, we use your IP address for searches like "coffee near me", unless you enable location settings, and even then we only use it to the nearest zip code. We don't store or log your IP address, and we convert it to the closest town or city before using it for lookups. We never give your location details to anyone else.

Our mission - Keep You safe and productive with search you can trust

Save time, protect you, and keep you focused

Andi's mission is to keep you productive and safe, fix search, and unbreak the Internet. We help you find what you need, and nothing you don't. We protect you from distractions, tracking, and creepy privacy-invading ad-tech.

If we can find it, we'll get you the information you ask for directly rather than pointing you to it.

We want to help fund great content and journalism. We will share search revenue with content producers. Any content creator can join our network.

The entire web has been enslaved to the service of advertising and tracking, and invading people's privacy. Our mission is to put people first, and give the web back to you. We're making search you can trust.

Our philosophy

Get you what you need without the clutter and ads. Give you control over how you view and read it.

Traditional search engines overwhelm you with information and give you no control over how you consume it. Andi gets to the point.

We initially provide the minimum necessary information to answer a question or query, and then give you the ability to view or see more if you need it easily.

So if you ask for the time in New York, we'll tell you the time in New York, rather than presenting a screen full of ads and website links.

How we make money

We plan to fund Andi through a freemium business model, with free anonymous search for everyone for ever, and paid plans for professionals and businesses, including APIs and using Andi for corporate information, with supplemental revenue from anonymous referral link attribution. We're focused on building the product right now, and will figure out the details once we're further along.

We are committed to staying 100% advertising free. Commercial considerations or partnerships will have zero impact on our search results or recommendations. Our recommendations are always made based on the best results we can find for our customers, and are never subject to commercial influence.

By sharing search revenue with content producers and media companies that join our network, our mission is to provide funding to great content and reduce media's reliance on invasive ad-tech. Contact us at [email protected] to get involved!

Our Privacy Promise

We promise not to share your data with anyone else in any way, shape or form. We promise to never store or look at what you search. Private means that only you have access to what you search or read, or where you go online or offline.

We only collect and retain sufficient data to help our customers use the service effectively, when they want to create an account or be remembered between devices and sessions, and to improve the service we provide by understanding how people use the app.

Read more about how we protect our customers' privacy

Who We Are

Andi is a startup project being built in Miami by a small team. Angela Hoover is co-founder and CEO, and Jed White is co-founder and CTO. Andi is our chat bot assistant who is here to help you search.

If you'd like to know more or get involved, please feel welcome to reach out to us at [email protected].

You can also join our Discord channel or we're on twitter as @MiamiAngela and @jedwhite

Or just leave us some Feedback with your email address and we'll reach out to you.

Home Page: https://andisearch.com/

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