ibou-search
recommended: allow
Operated by Ibou
search engine
ibou-search is Ibou's main web crawler. It discovers and indexes public pages for Ibou's search engine, which cites sources and links readers to the original publishers.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
ibou-search
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control ibou-search:
Allow full access
User-agent: ibou-search
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: ibou-search
Disallow: /
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