You.com, which bills itself as the world’s first open search engine, announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding. “The first page of Google can only be modified by paying for advertisements, which is both annoying to users and costly for companies. Our new platform will enable companies to contribute their most useful actual content to that first page, and — if users like it — they can take an action right then and there. Most companies and partners will prefer this new interface to people’s digital lives over the old status quo of Google.” Link You.com