DuckDuckBot
by DuckDuckGo
Search indexes · Discovery
DuckDuckGo's search crawler, used to improve its search results.
Crawlers that build the search indexes used by search engines and AI search features.
Control it with robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers read robots.txt before crawling. To block DuckDuckBot on your whole site:
robots.txt
User-agent: DuckDuckBot Disallow: /
Blocking AI search and answer crawlers can also remove your pages from AI answers and citations. Weigh traffic from AI assistants before blocking them.