Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon's search / answer indexing crawler.
Quick answer
Amzn-SearchBot is Amazon's crawler for improving search experiences across Amazon products and services, including Alexa. Amazon says it's used purely for search quality, not for collecting content to train generative AI models, which makes it a narrower bot than many other companies' crawlers.
What it does
Amzn-SearchBot crawls publicly available web content so Amazon can improve search experiences inside its own products and services, with Alexa named as a specific example of where that search quality work shows up. Amazon documents Amzn-SearchBot alongside its broader Amazonbot crawler family, but describes this one specifically as a search-focused bot rather than a general-purpose or AI-training crawler. It follows standard robots.txt rules, so a site that disallows it should stop being crawled by Amzn-SearchBot going forward. Because Amazon states this bot is not used to collect content for generative AI training, allowing or blocking it is a question about Amazon's search products specifically, not about whether a brand's content ends up training a model.
Facts
Operator
Amazon
Robots token
Amzn-SearchBot
User agent string(s)
- (see developer.amazon.com/en/amazonbot for the current format)
Purpose
Search / answer indexing
Respects robots.txt
Yes
IP ranges
https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/
From Amazon's documentation, checked Oct 2026.
Should you block it?
Amzn-SearchBot matters mainly to sites that want their content to surface well in Amazon's own search surfaces, including Alexa's spoken answers. Blocking it would keep a site's pages out of the crawl Amazon uses to power those search experiences, so a brand that wants to be found through Alexa or other Amazon search products should generally allow it. Because Amazon says this bot isn't used to gather data for training generative AI models, blocking it isn't a meaningful lever for a brand worried about AI training specifically; the tradeoff here is closer to being indexed by any other search engine than to the AI-training debate around bots like GPTBot. For most sites outside Amazon's shopping and voice ecosystem, Amzn-SearchBot carries low risk either way, since its stated purpose is narrow.
How to block it
Add this to robots.txt to block Amzn-SearchBot from crawling any page: User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: / To allow it, use 'Allow: /' or leave out a rule for it entirely, since allowing is the default when no rule is set.
Frequently asked questions
Does Amzn-SearchBot collect data to train Amazon's AI models?
No. Amazon says Amzn-SearchBot is used to improve search experiences in Amazon products and services, not to collect content for generative AI training.
Is Amzn-SearchBot the same as Amazonbot?
They're related but documented separately. Amazon describes Amzn-SearchBot specifically as the crawler behind search quality in products like Alexa, under its Amazonbot documentation.
Does blocking Amzn-SearchBot affect my Google or Bing ranking?
No. It only affects Amazon's own search experiences, including Alexa. It has no connection to other search engines' indexes.
Related
- AI crawler directory — every AI crawler's robots.txt token, purpose and facts in one place.
- Free AI crawler checker — check which AI crawlers a domain's robots.txt actually allows or blocks.
- Glossary — definitions of the AI-visibility terms that come up alongside crawler behavior.
Sources
- Amzn-SearchBot is used to improve search experiences in Amazon products and services, such as Alexa, and does not crawl for generative AI training. Source: https://developer.amazon.com/en/amazonbot (checked Oct 2026)
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