BotForYou Updated 9 October 2026 · Common Crawl CC-MAIN-2026-39

Every AI bot · You.com

youbot

You.com's crawler that builds an index for AI search answers.

In robots.txt: User-agent: youbot

The numbers

Named by2.9%of readable robots.txt files on the top 1M (17,268 of 600,979)
Of those, block it64.4%shut it out of the whole site (11,118 of 17,268)
Same sites, since CC-MAIN-2026-34+0.1 ptsshare of the same 394,690 sites that block it by name: 1.1% → 1.1%
Via Cloudflare's file1.7%of its blocks come from Cloudflare's ready-made robots.txt (189 of 11,118)
Block the whole site: 11,118Block some paths: 4,155Name it but allow it: 1,995
Every robots.txt file on the top 1M that names youbot, by what the rules that apply to it say.

Who does what

The highest-ranked sites on the top million in each group. Click one to see its whole robots.txt verdict.

Block it

  1. amazon.com #24
  2. yahoo.com #59
  3. msn.com #69
  4. amazonvideo.com #123
  5. snapchat.com #130

Block some paths

  1. android.com #256
  2. hostinger.com #333
  3. indeed.com #371
  4. squarespace.com #544
  5. klaviyo.com #593

Name it and allow it

  1. kaspersky.com #140
  2. sophos.com #714
  3. adjust.com #812
  4. grow.google #1,318
  5. mindbox.ru #1,932

Lists skip sites we don't showcase (adult content).

What this means for you: blocking youbot can keep your pages out of You.com's AI search answers, including any links back to you. Decide each bot on what it's for, not who runs it.

Counts use one robots.txt per site on this month's Tranco top 1M (600,979 files we could read). Bot list: registry 2026-07-14.1, kept in sync with Dark Visitors and ai.robots.txt.