AI ANSWER ENGINE · OWN INDEX

What is You.com?

You.com is an AI answer engine run by You.com. It runs its own index. On structured data, this research records the stance “Says it uses structured data”. Its pages do not limit it to listed countries. The research lists one crawler token for it: YouBot.

Last checked November 10, 2026 · 2 sources, 1 of them could not be fetched

Type
AI answer engine
Run by
You.com
Results come from
Its own index
Recorded markets
Not limited to listed countries in its pages
Where its AI chatbot share is highest
StatCounter does not track You.com in its AI chatbot figures.
AI chatbot share, worldwide
StatCounter does not track You.com in its AI chatbot figures.
Structured data formats
Documented: JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa
Rich result types
None on record

Who runs it

Run by You.com.

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Where does You.com get its results?

The YouBot page says the crawler powers the You.com search engine and discovers and indexes web pages[1]. The page does not say whether other search providers are also used, and it does not mention AI answers.

Engines that use results from You.com

The research records no engine that takes its general results from You.com or is built on it by the same company.

Which countries use You.com?

StatCounter does not track You.com in its AI chatbot figures. None of the labels in its AI chatbot figures for October 2026 maps to You.com in this research. StatCounter Global Stats

Recorded markets

The research records no country limit for You.com: its pages do not limit it to listed countries.

Does You.com use structured data?

Stance recordedSays it uses structured data

The YouBot page lists "Structured data (JSON-LD, microdata, RDFa)" among the content types the crawler crawls and indexes. It gives no types or properties and does not say how the data is used in results or answers.[1]

Structured data formats for You.com
FormatDocumented supportWhat the research records
JSON-LDYesListed among the content types YouBot crawls and indexes[1]. The page names the syntax only: no types, properties or result features are documented.[1]
MicrodataYesListed among the content types YouBot crawls and indexes[1]. The page names the syntax only: no types, properties or result features are documented.[1]
RDFaYesListed among the content types YouBot crawls and indexes[1]. The page names the syntax only: no types, properties or result features are documented.[1]
Open GraphNot documentedNot named on the YouBot page[1]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]
MicroformatsNot documentedNot named on the YouBot page[1]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]
Twitter CardsNot documentedNot named on the YouBot page[1]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]

“Not documented” means the pages read do not say; it does not mean the format is ignored.

Rich resultsThe research records no rich result type for You.com.

How does You.com crawl the web?

The research lists 1 crawler token for You.com: the names a site uses in robots.txt rules, with what each one does where the source says.

  • YouBot

    Search crawler. It discovers and indexes web pages for the You.com search engine. The page says it fully respects robots.txt, including rules addressed to its user agent and crawl-delay. The user agent was captured in two parts and is joined here with one space; X.X.X.X stands for the Chrome version. The ip_list value is the IP range given on the page. follows robots.txt.[1]

How do I test my markup for You.com?

The research records no markup testing tool of its own for You.com.

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Test a page for You.com

See what the research records for You.com against the structured data on your page.

Test a page

What does You.com ask of site owners?

Guidelines

robots.txt
YouBot fully respects robots.txt, including crawl-delay (the page's example is Crawl-delay: 10). It caches robots.txt for 30 minutes, so a change can take up to 30 minutes to apply.[1]
verification
Three ways to verify YouBot: Web Bot Auth with HTTP Message Signatures checked against the keys at https://you.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory (recommended), reverse DNS with a forward lookup on hostnames of the form youbot-{octets-with-hyphens}.search.you.com, and the IP range 68.67.112.0/24.[1]
content types
YouBot crawls and indexes HTML pages, PDF documents, plain text files, XML and RSS feeds, and structured data.[1]
status codes
301 and 302 redirects are followed. A 404 removes the page from the index. A 429 reduces the crawl rate. A 503 pauses crawling for a time.[1]

What could not be verified?

These claims about You.com came up in the research, but no page that could be read confirms them. They are kept apart, and nothing above rests on them.

  • Which schema.org types or properties You.com reads, and whether markup changes how a result is shown.

    Why it is open: No types, properties or result features are documented on the page read.

    How it was checked

    Read the YouBot page in its HTML and Markdown forms[1]. It names three syntaxes and nothing more.

  • The older YouBot page at about.you.com says something different from the current page.

    Why it is open: Failed fetch. A failed fetch is not a negative.

    How it was checked

    Fetched the old URL[2]. The server returned HTTP 404.

  • Content crawled by YouBot is used to train AI models.

    Why it is open: Not documented either way.

    How it was checked

    Read the YouBot page[1]. It does not mention AI training.

  • You.com AI answers or You.com APIs use the structured data that YouBot indexes.

    Why it is open: No page read links structured data to AI answers.

    How it was checked

    Read the YouBot page[1]. It speaks only of the search engine and its search results.

Sources

The pages the research used for You.com, numbered as cited above. Accessed November 10, 2026 unless shown.

  1. 1.YouBot: You.com's Web Crawler (reached by 301 redirect from docs.you.com/youbot; also read at the .md path on the same host) · You.com
  2. 2.about.you.com/youbot (title not captured; fetch failed with HTTP 404) · You.comCould not be fetched

Market share figures: StatCounter Global Stats, AI chatbot market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.