search indexes

YouBot

Operated by You.com · Search indexes

You.com's crawler, indexing pages for its search and answer engine.

When YouBot shows up in your logs

You.com is indexing your page for its answer engine, though the user agent is a hint, not verified traffic.

Discovery crawlers that keep a search or answer index fresh.

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.

allow
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow:
block
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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