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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.