diff --git a/services/search/content.py b/services/search/content.py
index 39b1e2106..49d050a4f 100644
--- a/services/search/content.py
+++ b/services/search/content.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
 import httpx
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-from src.constants import WEB_FETCH_SOFT_MAX_BYTES, WEB_FETCH_HARD_MAX_BYTES
+from src.constants import WEB_FETCH_SOFT_MAX_BYTES, WEB_FETCH_HARD_MAX_BYTES, WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT
 
 from .analytics import RateLimitError, error_logger
 from .cache import (
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ def fetch_webpage_content(url: str, timeout: int = 5, retry_attempt: int = 0,
     # Fetch
     try:
         headers = {
-            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
+            "User-Agent": WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT,
             "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
             "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
             # identity so the streamed size cap in _get_public_url stays honest
diff --git a/services/search/providers.py b/services/search/providers.py
index 89fe12a2d..d0ca1b0de 100644
--- a/services/search/providers.py
+++ b/services/search/providers.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse, parse_qs
 import httpx
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-from src.constants import SEARXNG_INSTANCE, REQUEST_TIMEOUT
+from src.constants import SEARXNG_INSTANCE, REQUEST_TIMEOUT, WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT
 from .analytics import RateLimitError, error_logger
 from .query import build_enhanced_query
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def searxng_search_api(query: str, count: Optional[int] = None, categories: str
     count = count if count is not None else _get_result_count()
     instance = _get_search_instance()
     api_key = ""
-    headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"}
+    headers = {"User-Agent": WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT}
     if api_key:
         headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {api_key}"
     # News/fresh queries do badly in the 'general' category — it favours
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ def searxng_search(query, max_results=10):
     """Search using SearXNG instance - parsing HTML."""
     instance = _get_search_instance()
     api_key = ""
-    req_headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"}
+    req_headers = {"User-Agent": WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT}
     if api_key:
         req_headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {api_key}"
     try:
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ def duckduckgo_search(query: str, count: Optional[int] = None, time_filter: Opti
             response = httpx.get(
                 "https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/",
                 params={"q": query, "kp": _safesearch_for("duckduckgo_html")},
-                headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"},
+                headers={"User-Agent": WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT},
                 timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT,
             )
             response.raise_for_status()
diff --git a/src/constants.py b/src/constants.py
index a774439a6..622f7e509 100644
--- a/src/constants.py
+++ b/src/constants.py
@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ MAX_CONTEXT_MESSAGES = 90
 REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 20
 OPENAI_COMPAT_PATH = "/v1/chat/completions"
 
+# Outbound UA for web_fetch / web_search scraping; common desktop UA so pages serve normal HTML.
+WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT = os.environ.get(
+    "WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT",
+    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
+    "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+)
+
 # Environment variables with defaults
 DEFAULT_HOST = os.getenv("LLM_HOST", "localhost")
 LLM_HOSTS = [h.strip() for h in os.getenv("LLM_HOSTS", "").split(",") if h.strip()]
diff --git a/tests/test_web_user_agent_constant.py b/tests/test_web_user_agent_constant.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d9e802a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_web_user_agent_constant.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+"""The web scraping path routes its User-Agent through one constant.
+
+Guards the dedup: web_fetch / web_search outbound UAs go through
+WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT, so a stale or bare Mozilla string cannot be re-inlined in
+the search sources.
+"""
+from pathlib import Path
+
+_SEARCH = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "services" / "search"
+
+
+def test_search_sources_have_no_inline_mozilla_ua():
+    offenders = [
+        str(py.relative_to(_SEARCH.parent.parent))
+        for py in _SEARCH.rglob("*.py")
+        if "Mozilla/" in py.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    ]
+    assert not offenders, f"inline Mozilla UA found; use WEB_FETCH_USER_AGENT: {offenders}"