AI Crawler Bots

How DuckAssistBot Powers DuckDuckGo's AI Answers

Learn about DuckAssistBot's role in DuckDuckGo's AI-generated answers, its privacy features, and how to manage its interactions with your site.

Learn about FacebookBot's role in AI training for Meta's models, user-agent details, documentation, and how to block it from your website.

Learn about FeedFetcher-Google bot, how it crawls RSS feeds for Google services, user-agent details, and blocking considerations for publishers.

Learn what facebookexternalhit is, how it works for Facebook link previews, and best practices for handling this Meta crawler on your website.

Learn about FeedlyBot, its role in feed retrieval, legitimate RSS use, and blocking implications for Feedly users.

Learn how Google-Extended controls AI training access via robots.txt without affecting search rankings. Block Gemini and Vertex AI crawlers properly.

Learn about Google-CloudVertexBot features, purposes, blocking methods, and Vertex AI Search integration for developers and businesses.

Learn how Google-InspectionTool powers Search Console's URL inspection for on-demand crawling, SEO testing, and debugging website issues.

Learn how Googlebot works, its user-agent types, crawl budget management, and relationship to Google-Extended for AI training data collection.