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DuckAssistBot
Operated by DuckDuckGo · AI answers
DuckDuckGo real-time crawler for AI-assisted answers with citations.
When DuckAssistBot shows up in your logs
DuckDuckGo's AI answer feature cited your page 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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