Known bots · DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo’s bots

DuckDuckGo runs 2 bots tidekeeper knows by name, each with its own name in robots.txt.

Its bots

DuckAssistBotAI searchby its namenot seen here this monthDuckDuckBotSearch engineaddress listnot seen here this month

DuckDuckGo’s own pages on them: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot, duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot

Keep one out

Each reads by the group that names it. To keep DuckAssistBot out and let the others read:

robots.txt
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
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