About this bot
Cliqzbot is a crawler associated with Cliqz and used for search indexing.
It can be identified in HTTP traffic by the Cliqzbot identity family, including Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Cliqzbot/3.0; +http://cliqz.com/company/cliqzbot).
Directory status: Legacy. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence. Identity type: historical-documented.
robots.txt behavior is not sufficiently established to claim compliance.
Use the historical Cliqzbot/1.0, /2.0, and /3.0 forms for retrospective log attribution; do not interpret them as a current live service.
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Cliqz
- Purpose
- Search indexing
- Common Use
- Historical search-engine crawling performed by the now-defunct Cliqz search project.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- historical-documented
- Evidence Method
- Use the historical Cliqzbot/1.0, /2.0, and /3.0 forms for retrospective log attribution; do not interpret them as a current live service.
- Detection Notes
- Cliqzbot is retained because historical traffic is useful for log and archive analysis.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Cliqzbot Disallow: /