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AmazonChecked 29 Oct 2026

Amzn-SearchBot

Reads pages for search in Amazon's products, such as Alexa. Amazon says it is not used for training.

Run by
Amazon
Used for
Search and AI answers
Follows robots.txt
Yes
Shut out by
5% of top websites

What blocking it changes

The site's pages are no longer eligible for Amazon's search experiences. If robots.txt does not name it, it follows the rules given to other search crawlers.

"Amzn-SearchBot does not crawl content for generative AI model training."

Amazon, read 29 Oct 2026
Figure 1How many shut out Amzn-SearchBot while letting Googlebot in
Most visited websites5%31 of 669
S&P 500 companies0%2 of 410
From our two studies of 29 October 2026: the 669 most visited websites and the 410 S&P 500 companies whose robots.txt we could read. 13 of the websites and 0 of the companies name Amzn-SearchBot in the file. The website study, the S&P 500 study.

The lines to copy

To shut it out
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /
To let it in
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /

A crawler follows only the lines under the User-agent line that names it, and the lines under User-agent: * only when no line names it. So lines for one crawler do not change the rules for the others.

Amazon publishes the addresses it crawls from, so a request can be checked against them: the list.

More from Amazon

  • Amazonbot Collects pages to improve Amazon's products and services, and may be used to train Amazon's AI models.
  • Amzn-User Opens a page when a customer asks Alexa something that needs up-to-date information.