You.com

YouBot

Search and answer engine crawler for You.com, specializing in developer resources and privacy-first AI answers.

Purpose: Search indexing and YouChat answers

Quick Facts

Company
You.com
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Last Updated
2025-05
Official Documentation

📊 Popularity & Traffic

Mid-tier crawler with a dedicated developer-focused user base.

🤖 User Agent Strings

Use these patterns to identify YouBot in your server logs or configure your robots.txt file.

YouBot

Respects robots.txt

Privacy-centric search assistant bot

YouBot

🌐 IP Ranges

Source: Oracle Cloud / AWS infrastructure

No specific IP ranges published. Identify this bot using the User Agent strings above.

📝 Robots.txt Configuration

Add the following to your robots.txt file to block YouBot:

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

💡 Important Notes

  • Executes multi-step searches to provide sourced, real-time answers
  • Privacy-focused company that advertises strict respect for user choice and site policies
  • Commonly seen on documentation and technical tutorial sites

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