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. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Amazon |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
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.
Amzn-SearchBot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36 |
How To Block Amzn-SearchBot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Amzn-SearchBot from accessing your entire 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: /Global Statistics for Amzn-SearchBot
As of August 11, 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.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
3% of top websites block Amzn-SearchBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Search Crawler Traffic
1.9% of all web traffic came from AI search crawlers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Amzn-SearchBot.
Frequently Asked Questions
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, 3% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Amzn-SearchBot.
Does Amzn-SearchBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Amzn-SearchBot is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Amzn-SearchBot respects it.
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.
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.
How Can I Tell if Amzn-SearchBot Is Visiting My Website?
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.