DuckAssistBot
DuckDuckGo · Answers right now
DuckAssistBot reads pages in real time for the AI-assisted answers in DuckDuckGo Search, and DuckDuckGo says the data is not used to train AI models. A Disallow takes effect after 72 hours and does not affect your organic ranking.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- DuckDuckGo
- What it is for
- It fetches a page when someone asks the assistant a question, to answer with it.
- Assistant it feeds
- DuckDuckGo: DuckAssist
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- Yes. It fetches pages for one of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot
- Official IP ranges
- JSON list
If you block it
You ask the assistant (DuckDuckGo: DuckAssist) not to fetch your pages when someone asks it a question.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes DuckAssistBot ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: DuckAssistBot Allow: /
Block
User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether DuckAssistBot can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.