Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon's AI-search crawler. Indexes pages so they can surface in search experiences like Alexa - explicitly not used for model training.
Reference reviewed by Sona
| Operator | Amazon |
|---|---|
| Powers | Search experiences in Amazon products such as Alexa |
| Purpose | Search & answers |
| User-agent token | Amzn-SearchBot |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
Amzn-SearchBot is documented on Amazon's Amazonbot page as a separate token that crawls to improve search experiences across Amazon products and services. Permitting it makes your content eligible to appear in surfaces such as Alexa answers.
Amazon states Amzn-SearchBot does not crawl content for generative AI model training - that remains the role of the broader Amazonbot crawl - so you can allow search surfacing while blocking the training-capable crawler, or vice versa.
Full user-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Allow Amzn-SearchBot
Your content stays eligible for Alexa and other Amazon search surfaces without contributing to model training.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Allow: /
Block Amzn-SearchBot
You don't want your pages surfaced in Amazon's AI search experiences.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /
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