YouBot
by You.com
Search indexes · Discovery
Indexes pages for You.com's AI search and assistant.
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 YouBot on your whole site:
robots.txt
User-agent: YouBot 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.