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IbouBot/1.0

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IbouBot is the proprietary crawler for the Ibou.io search engine, designed to index public web content to provide cited search results without training AI models. Operated by Ibou.io.

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Assessment
Search Engine
Category
Bot
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is IbouBot/1.0?

IbouBot is the dedicated crawler operated by Ibou.io, a search engine focused on transparency and source attribution. Unlike many modern crawlers, the operator explicitly states that the data collected is used solely for indexing and ranking purposes, and is not utilized for training generative AI models. The bot follows standard web protocols, including adherence to robots.txt, and aims to drive organic traffic back to the websites it indexes.

Helpful — The bot explicitly respects robots.txt, maintains a low crawl rate to avoid server strain, and provides a clear mechanism for site owners to manage its access.

Identification

Bot name
IbouBot/1.0
Operator
Ibou.io
Category
Search Engine
Verification
Community-sourced
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; [email protected]; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html)
Main use cases
Web indexing for search engine resultsDiscovery of publicly accessible web pagesGenerating cited search traffic for publishers

Why it crawls your site

IbouBot crawls the web to build and maintain a searchable index of public URLs. It visits pages to ensure the search engine's database remains current, including checking for status changes on previously indexed pages like 301 redirects or 404 errors. Site owners can verify the operator by visiting the provided documentation URL or contacting the email address specified in the User-Agent string.

IP ranges

Requests from IbouBot/1.0 originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow IbouBot/1.0

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; [email protected]; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html) in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block IbouBot/1.0 from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; [email protected]; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html)
Disallow: /

# Allow IbouBot/1.0 full access
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; [email protected]; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html)
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IbouBot/1.0; [email protected]; +https://ibou.io/iboubot.html). Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Links & references

Ibou.io documentation
ibou.io/iboubot.html
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated September 18, 2026

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