What is Amzn-SearchBot?
Amzn-SearchBot is an AI search crawler operated by Amazon that indexes web content for use in improving Alexa and other Amazon services. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Amzn-SearchBot visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36 |
| Operated By | Amazon |
| Source | Official Website |
| Identity |
Verified
Verified Identification
Requests claiming to be this agent can be authenticated using its published verification method. |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Yes |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Amzn-SearchBot Visiting My Website?
Amzn-SearchBot is updating an AI search index so your pages can appear in its results. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or mentions of your domain.
Should I Block Amzn-SearchBot?
Usually not. Blocking Amzn-SearchBot keeps your pages out of its AI search results and can eliminate referral traffic from that channel. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 9% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Amzn-SearchBot.
How Do I Block Amzn-SearchBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Amzn-SearchBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI search crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/amzn-searchbot
Disallow: /Insights for Amzn-SearchBot
As of November 9, 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.
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Amzn-SearchBot?
Amzn-SearchBot revisits your site on a flexible schedule, often requesting several pages in a burst. Activity usually increases when your content changes or its index refreshes, with quiet intervals between crawl passes.
Does Amzn-SearchBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Amzn-SearchBot 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 Amzn-SearchBot respects it.
Is Amzn-SearchBot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Amzn-SearchBot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Amzn-SearchBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Yes. Blocking Amzn-SearchBot can keep your pages out of the AI search index it supplies, reducing their eligibility to appear or be cited in that product's answers.
Does Amzn-SearchBot Access Private Content?
No special access. Amzn-SearchBot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors. Make sure staging sites and other sensitive areas require authentication.
How Can I Verify a Request From Amzn-SearchBot?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from Amzn-SearchBot and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using Amzn-SearchBot's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Amzn-SearchBot". Look for bursts that follow links across several pages and recur over time. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be Amzn-SearchBot.
How Is Amzn-SearchBot Different From Other Amazon Agents?
Amazon operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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