DuckDuckGo / robots.txt snapshot
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| 1 | User-agent: * |
| 2 | Disallow: /lite |
| 3 | Disallow: /html |
| 4 | |
| 5 | # Block query strings on other pages; allow them at the root (covers SERP's |
| 6 | # ?q= and any other root-level params). |
| 7 | # Google/Bing apply the least-restrictive rule on a tie, so Allow wins for root. |
| 8 | Disallow: /*? |
| 9 | Allow: /?* |
| 10 | |
| 11 | # Embeddable search box (search.html, incl. ?duck=yes) — keep crawlable so its |
| 12 | # noindex meta tag is fetched and honored, dropping it from search indexes |
| 13 | Allow: /search.html |
| 14 | |
| 15 | # chrome new tab page |
| 16 | Disallow: /chrome_newtab |
| 17 | |
| 18 | # Email Protection |
| 19 | Disallow: /email/ |
| 20 | Allow: /email/$ |
| 21 | Allow: /email/privacy-guarantees |
| 22 | Allow: /email/privacy-terms |
| 23 | |
| 24 | User-agent: ia_archiver |
| 25 | Disallow: / |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Sitemap: https://duckduckgo.com/sitemap.xml |
| 28 | Sitemap: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/sitemap.xml |