Search the web

You.com API

Web search API with its own index that returns ranked web and news results as JSON, with optional page content.

Your data

Data location
Services are provided from the United States16
Retention
Kept for the period necessary to deliver and secure the Services; no fixed period stated15
Used for training
No: prompts, files and outputs are not used to train own models; LLM-provider contracts prohibit their training15
Used for training (other page)
Terms of service say Content may be used to train and improve the Services; the privacy policy says paid-subscriber and enterprise terms control on conflict16
Zero data retention
Available on enterprise agreements for Web Search and Answer APIs, enabled on request; not available for keyless machine-payment requests4

Compliance

Certifications
SOC 2; DPA-ready; CCPA; EU-U.S., UK and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework1
HIPAA
Not published

Read from You.com (SuSea, Inc.)’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/you-com.md