What is YouBot?

You.com · AI search · class ai

You.com AI search.

Verdict: Your call: visibility in AI answers versus free use.

On the mugshot wall: No published way to verify a request is really this crawler

Profile

Compiled by Crawler Atlas from the operator's published documentation. Not yet declared by the operator. JSON

Operator	You.com · about.you.com
Purpose	AI search indexers. Build the index behind AI answers and cite you. Blocking them removes you from those answers, not from training.
User-agent contains	`youbot`
robots.txt	`User-agent: YouBot` `Disallow: /`
How to verify	No published verification method. Treat the name as a claim, not proof.
Should you block it?	Your call: visibility in AI answers versus free use.
Does it pay?	No. It does not carry a wallet and cannot answer a 402. A site that charges simply serves it nothing.
Docs	https://about.you.com/youbot/

Anonymous daily counts from sites running Pay-per-Crawl that opted in, plus the ForgeMesh fleet. Last 7 days. Small sample: 1 sites reporting.

No sightings reported yet. YouBot appears here the day an opted-in site sees it.

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