Kuldeep Paul

AI assistant · DeepSeek

DeepSeek

DeepSeek opened its in-house search engine in October 2026 and offers web search through its API.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Operator
DeepSeek
Launched
Jan 10, 2025
Search index
DeepSeek opened its in-house search engine in October 2026 and offers web search through its API.Sources: searchenginejournal.com, dejan.ai
Crawlers
DeepSeekBot — blocked by 6.8% of top sites
Referrer in analytics
chat.deepseek.comdeepseek.com
UTM tagging
None added
Ads
No.
Citations
Search mode shows numbered sources.

What this means for visibility

ai.robots.txt lists DeepSeekBot as not respecting robots.txt.

Questions

What search engine does DeepSeek use?

DeepSeek opened its in-house search engine in October 2026 and offers web search through its API.

Which crawlers does DeepSeek use?

DeepSeek relies on DeepSeekBot. ai.robots.txt lists DeepSeekBot as not respecting robots.txt.

How do I track DeepSeek traffic in analytics?

Clicks from DeepSeek arrive with the referrer chat.deepseek.com or deepseek.com. Add it to an AI channel in GA4 using a source regex.

Does DeepSeek show ads?

No.

Analysis using this data

  1. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

Other AI engines

ChatGPT · ChatGPT Atlas · Google AI Overviews · Google AI Mode · Gemini · Perplexity · Comet · Claude · Microsoft Copilot · Meta AI · Grok · Le Chat · You.com · Brave Search (Ask Brave) · Kagi Assistant · DuckDuckGo (Duck.ai & Search Assist) · Amazon Rufus (retired)

How to cite this data

This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:

  1. Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
  2. Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/deepseek), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
  3. Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
  4. Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
  5. Cite the original source for single figures when you quote one reported number; it is linked in every row.

In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's DeepSeek — AI search engine reference (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). DeepSeek — AI search engine reference [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/deepseek

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "DeepSeek — AI search engine reference." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/deepseek.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "DeepSeek — AI search engine reference." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/deepseek.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026deepseek, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {DeepSeek — AI search engine reference}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/deepseek}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/deepseek">DeepSeek — AI search engine reference</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)