YouBot
by You.com
Search engine UA only (unverifiable)
Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank.
You.com crawler for its search and AI answer index.
What it usually means
You.com is indexing this page so it can appear in its search and AI answers.
How to identify it
User-Agent tokens
youbot robots.txt stanza
User-agent: YouBot Sources
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