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DuckDuckGo's Robots and Crawlers

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 1:30:00 PM

DuckDuckGo's Robots and Crawlers

Research into DuckDuckGo's approach to scraping web content

This blog explains how DuckDuckGo’s web crawlers, including DuckDuckBot and DuckAssistBot, interact with website content. It outlines their different roles, how they follow robots.txt directives, and the management of crawler access and content visibility.