Amzn-SearchBot

Amzn-SearchBot crawls web content to improve search experiences across Amazon products and services, including making content eligible to appear in search-style experiences such as Alexa. Amazon’s own documentation is explicit that this crawler is not used to train generative AI models — that use is associated with the separate Amazonbot token.

A robots.txt behaviour worth knowing

Amazon’s documentation states that Amzn-SearchBot follows the robots.txt directives given to other search bots if it is not specifically mentioned by name. A site that has a general rule for search crawlers (or a wildcard User-agent: * group) but no Amzn-SearchBot-specific group is still covering it — an explicit Amzn-SearchBot group is only needed to give this crawler different treatment from your site’s other search-bot rules.

Site-owner controls

Disallowing Amzn-SearchBot removes this content’s eligibility to appear in Amazon’s search-style experiences, including Alexa-eligible content. It does not affect Amazonbot (Amazon’s mixed-use crawler, which may include AI training) or Amzn-User (user-triggered fetches) — both documented separately, and evaluated independently by CrawlPact. See /limitations for what a robots.txt rule can and cannot guarantee.

Related crawlers

Amazon documents Amzn-SearchBot alongside two other tokens on the same page: Amazonbot (mixed use, including possible AI training) and Amzn-User (user-triggered fetches on behalf of Amazon apps and devices, which does not reliably honour robots.txt at all — see that page). See Amazonbot vs. Amzn-SearchBot vs. Amzn-User for a side-by-side comparison.

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /