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YouBot

Indexes pages so You.com can find and cite them. Here is how to recognise it, verify it, and allow or block it.

Company: You.com
Product: You.com
Why it visits: Indexing for AI / search answers
How to verify: Name only
User-agent contains: YouBot

How to tell a real YouBot from a fake

You.com publishes no IP list and no DNS names for YouBot, so a visit can’t be proven real. Anyone can put “YouBot” in a user-agent. Treat it as unverified, and watch how much it crawls.

Check a YouBot visit

Allow or block YouBot in robots.txt

Block it everywhere:

User-agent: YouBot Disallow: /

Allow it everywhere:

User-agent: YouBot Allow: /

Fake bots ignore robots.txt: block them by address in your firewall instead.