Amzn-SearchBot
- User-agent token
- Amzn-SearchBot
- Purpose
- Search
- Status
- active
- Last verified
- 2026-07-30
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.
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). CrawlPact reports these as distinct rows because they serve different
purposes and carry different training implications.
Example robots.txt configuration
To disallow Amzn-SearchBot specifically, without affecting any other crawler:
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /If no dedicated User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot group exists in a domain's robots.txt, this crawler falls back to whatever the wildcard User-agent: * group says (RFC 9309) — see robots.txt syntax basics for how group selection works.
Verified against the source above as of 2026-07-30 — see how CrawlPact verifies crawler information.
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