What is Teoma?
Teoma is a search engine crawler operated by Ask. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Teoma visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma) |
| Operated By | Ask |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Teoma Visiting My Website?
Teoma is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
Should I Block Teoma?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. Teoma supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 5% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Teoma.
How Do I Block Teoma Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Teoma from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Teoma # https://knownagents.com/agents/teoma
Disallow: /Insights for Teoma
As of October 29, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Teoma Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Teoma?
Teoma follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
Does Teoma Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Teoma is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Teoma respects it.
Is Teoma Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Teoma is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Teoma Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking Teoma can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.
Does Teoma Access Private Content?
No special access. Teoma can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Verify a Request From Teoma?
Agent Analytics tracks Teoma visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Teoma". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because Teoma does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is Teoma Different From Other Ask Agents?
Ask operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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