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You.com Search and Answer APIs, agents, citations, cache behavior, and migration changes.
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You.com’s extraction_source setting exposes a practical freshness decision: use cached content for speed, live fetch for recency, or blend the two. The right choice depends on the claim’s change rate.
You.com now lets Search API users request relevant highlights or full-page HTML and Markdown. Use this protocol to compare citation support, answer coverage, latency, and tokens without inventing a winner.
Choose You.com Web Search GET or POST by comparing cache behavior, domain-list encoding, URL limits, filter precedence, redacted keys, and time-sensitive results.
Choose a You.com API key, x402 or MPP by comparing endpoint and method support, live terms, receipts, retry safety, operating cost, ownership and the ZDR boundary.
Make author metadata optional, preserve source identity, and test downstream attribution systems after You.com removed the authors field from v1 and Answer API results.
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