DuckDu
Search Engineby DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckBot
DuckDuckGo's web crawler for indexing content in DuckDuckGo search results. DuckDuckGo is the leading privacy-focused search engine with a growing market share among privacy-conscious users.
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Can be blocked
Yes
Crawl-Delay support
No
Type
Search Engine
Purpose
DuckDuckGo search indexing
SEO Impact
Relevant for privacy-focused audience segments. DuckDuckGo has ~2-3% search market share globally, higher among tech and privacy-focused users.
User-Agent String
DuckDuckBot/1.1
robots.txt Control
Add "User-agent: DuckDuckBot" with "Disallow: /" in robots.txt.
Block
User-agent: DuckDuckBot Disallow: /
Allow (default)
User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: /
Official Documentation
Test your robots.txt against DuckDuckBot
Check which paths are blocked or allowed for each user-agent