Amzn-SearchBot

Operated by Amazon · Builds a search index

If you block it

Your content stops being eligible to appear in those results, including Alexa.

What Amazon says it is for

Improves the search experience, including Alexa. Amazon states this one is not used for training, and that allowing it is what makes your content eligible to appear there.

Published details

robots.txt: Says it respects robots.txt
robots.txt caching: Amazon says changes take up to 30 days to take effect, because its crawlers use a cached copy.
User agent: Not published as a full string. Amazon publishes only the token.Match on the prefix Amzn-SearchBot rather than the whole string: operators version these, and an exact match stops working on the next release.
Verification: Published address list: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

Source: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot Read 2026年10月12日.