Crawl & indexing
DuckAssistBot — AI Answer Crawler Guide
Read DuckDuckGo's guidance for the crawler that retrieves sources for AI-assisted search answers.
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- Understanding AI answer retrieval separately from training
- Owner next step
- Check the published crawler IP information and decide whether your public pages should be potential AI-answer sources.
- Access
- Public documentation or dashboard; no account needed to read
- Cost
- Free. Free public documentation. DuckDuckGo says this crawler's data is not used to train AI models; opting out does not change organic search rankings.
- Interfaces
- Website
- Source evidence
- Official public source · checked 2026-10-01. This is a description review, not an execution or compatibility test.
- Traffic and availability
- Not monitored. Bot visits, citations, uptime and successful delivery have not been measured by this directory.
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