You.com has announced the release of YouRetriever, which provides access to their You.com Search API, designed specifically for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. This API has been evaluated against various datasets to benchmark its performance, particularly in the RAG-QA setting, where it is compared with the Google Search API. The Hotpot QA dataset is used to test how well the API retrieves relevant information, even in the presence of distractor text. The You.com API is noted for its ability to return more extensive and numerous text snippets, which is advantageous for language models with longer context windows. A comparison shows that the You.com Search API significantly outperforms Google's API on a test dataset, with plans for a larger study to be released soon. Early access to the API is available for interested partners who can provide details about their use case and expected usage.