Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon · Feeds a search index
Amzn-SearchBot makes your content eligible for Amazon search experiences such as Alexa, and Amazon says it does not crawl content for generative AI model training. If your robots.txt doesn't mention it but allows other search bots, it follows the rules you gave them.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- Amazon
- What it is for
- It crawls the web to build the index the assistant draws its answers from.
- Assistant it feeds
- Amazon: Alexa
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- Yes. It feeds the index of one of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
If you block it
You ask for your pages to be left out of the index the assistant (Amazon: Alexa) draws its answers from.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes Amzn-SearchBot ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether Amzn-SearchBot can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.