Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon documents Amzn-SearchBot as search indexing, distinct from Amazonbot and Amzn-User.
- Operator
- Amazon
- Motif family
- amazon
- Motif class
- Search indexing
- In Motif classifier
- Yes
- robots.txt
- Vendor documents that it honors robots.txt
- Executes JavaScript
- No
- Verified in Motif
- Vendor docs exist. Motif does not check source IPs
What Motif will and will not claim
Motif classifies Amzn-SearchBot as family amazon, class search, on tracker or collector hits.
Revenue
Indexing is not first touch. Crawler hits stay off the ranking.
Vendor documentation
Start with the vendor page at https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot. Motif stores the controlled token from a self-reported User-Agent.
Amzn-SearchBot User-Agent example
Amzn-SearchBotAllow Amzn-SearchBot in robots.txt
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /Block Amzn-SearchBot in robots.txt
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /Does Amzn-SearchBot count as a visit in Motif?
No. If Amzn-SearchBot hits the Motif tracker or collector it increments AI crawlers. It does not create a visitor and cannot win a recommendation.
Will Motif show Amzn-SearchBot on my HTML pages?
Only if that client requested /m.js or POST /v1/events. HTML-only crawls of the origin never reach Motif. Saying otherwise would be a product lie.
Should I block Amzn-SearchBot?
Search-index bots are how some assistants find pages to cite. Blocking them is a discovery policy, not a ranking in Motif. User-requested fetchers and model crawlers are separate decisions.