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DuckAssistBot

Honors robots.txt

DuckAssistBot crawls content to power DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's AI-generated instant-answer feature shown above regular search results for privacy-focused users.

User-agent
DuckAssistBot
Operator
DuckDuckGo

Allow in robots.txt

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

Block in robots.txt

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

DuckDuckGo has a smaller but privacy-conscious user base; DuckAssist answers are generated from a limited set of trusted sources rather than the open web broadly, which raises the bar for being included at all.

Frequently asked questions

Conceptually similar (an AI summary above search results) but DuckDuckGo draws from a narrower, curated source set and operates independently of Google's index.

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