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DuckAssistBot
Operated by DuckDuckGo · AI answers
DuckDuckGo's real-time fetcher for DuckAssist. It reads your page so the AI answer can quote and cite it.
When DuckAssistBot shows up in your logs
DuckDuckGo's AI answer feature used your page and cited it for a real query.
User-triggered fetches, when an assistant opens a page to answer a person directly.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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