DuckAssistBot
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What is DuckAssistBot?
About
DuckAssistBot is a web crawler for DuckDuckGo Search that crawls pages in real-time for our AI-assisted answers, which prominently cite their sources. This data is not used in any way to train AI models.
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Expected Behavior
Web crawlers visit websites on a regular schedule to index content for search engines or other services. They typically follow a consistent crawling pattern and respect robots.txt directives.
Should I Block DuckAssistBot?
This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.
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You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
DuckAssistBotShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block DuckAssistBot User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: /
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