Amazon
AI search
Amzn-SearchBot
Crawls pages for search in Amazon products. Amazon says it is not used for AI training.
robots.txt not stated- User agent token
- Amzn-SearchBot
- Operator
- Amazon
- Verification
- Published IP list
- Source
- Amazon documentation
What an AI search crawler does
An AI search crawler builds the index an assistant searches before it answers. Being in that index is how a page gets quoted and linked in AI answers, which is a growing source of visitors.
Block or allow Amzn-SearchBot in robots.txt
Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.
Block Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /Allow Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /More from Amazon
Questions, answered.
Amzn-SearchBot is an AI search crawler run by Amazon. Crawls pages for search in Amazon products. Amazon says it is not used for AI training.
Amazon doesn't say whether Amzn-SearchBot follows robots.txt.
Add "User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.
Check the request's IP address against the list Amazon publishes. A user agent alone proves nothing, since any script can copy it.
It can. Pages Amzn-SearchBot indexes may be cited and linked in Amazon's AI answers, and those links bring readers.
Only if you don't want to appear in Amazon's AI answers. Blocking Amzn-SearchBot removes your pages from what it can cite.
In its own documentation at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot. Every fact on this page comes from there.
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