AI search & answer engines

DuckAssistBot

Crawls pages in real time to supply DuckDuckGo's AI-assisted answers (DuckAssist), which cite their sources. DuckDuckGo states the data is not used to train AI models.

Dossier

Operator: DuckDuckGo
Documentation: duckduckgo.com
robots.txt token: DuckAssistBot
Feeds: live answer fetch
Follows robots.txt: Yes, per its documentationOpt-out via robots.txt takes effect after 72h; does not affect organic ranking.
How to verify: Published IP rangesduckduckgo.com
Names in our logs: duckassistbot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 6
Days active: 4 / 93
First seen: 11 Sept 2026
Last seen: 21 Oct 2026

Returningother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

duckduckgo.comduckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot
duckduckgo.comduckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.json