AI search index · Amazon
Amzn-SearchBot
Crawls to improve search results in Amazon experiences such as Alexa. Amazon says it is not used for model training.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Purpose
- AI search index
- Used for
- Alexa and Amazon search experiences
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes
- robots.txt token
Amzn-SearchBot- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-SearchBot/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- IP list
- developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/
- Official docs
- developer.amazon.com
- Feeds
- Amazon Rufus (retired)
Block Amzn-SearchBot in robots.txt
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /Blocking a search or user-triggered bot removes your pages from that assistant's answers. To opt out of model training only, block the operator's training crawler instead.
Well-known sites that block Amzn-SearchBot
cnn.com #195, theguardian.com #196, bbc.com #216, bbc.co.uk #236, usatoday.com #617, elpais.com #674, cnet.com #737, people.com #827, onet.pl #980
Other Amazon bots
Amazonbot (mixed / general) · Amzn-User (user-triggered fetch)
Questions
What is Amzn-SearchBot?
Amzn-SearchBot is a ai search index bot operated by Amazon, used for Alexa and Amazon search experiences. Crawls to improve search results in Amazon experiences such as Alexa. Amazon says it is not used for model training.
How do I block Amzn-SearchBot?
Add "User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.
Does Amzn-SearchBot respect robots.txt?
Yes. Amazon documents that Amzn-SearchBot honours robots.txt directives.
How many websites block Amzn-SearchBot?
In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 5.6% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed Amzn-SearchBot.
Analysis using this data
- Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
- The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.
How to cite this data
This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:
- Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
- Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amzn-searchbot), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
- Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
- Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
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In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's Amzn-SearchBot — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.
Paul, K. (2026). Amzn-SearchBot — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amzn-searchbot
Paul, Kuldeep. "Amzn-SearchBot — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amzn-searchbot.
Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "Amzn-SearchBot — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amzn-searchbot.
@misc{paul2026amznsearchbot, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {Amzn-SearchBot — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amzn-searchbot}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }
<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/amzn-searchbot">Amzn-SearchBot — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)