What is YodaoBot?

YodaoBot is the official web crawler of Youdao, a subsidiary of NetEase, which operates a popular search engine and various online services in China. The bot systematically visits websites to collect and index content, enabling Youdao's search engine to provide up-to-date and relevant search results to its users. YodaoBot identifies itself with the user-agent 'yodaobot' or similar strings and adheres to the standard web crawling protocols, such as respecting robots.txt directives. Its primary function is to gather publicly available information from the web for indexing, supporting Youdao's search, translation, and knowledge-based services. Website administrators can control YodaoBot's access to their sites through standard robots.txt configurations.

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