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# Sogou spider

> Sogou spider is a search engine crawler run by Sogou. Sogou's search engine program, which visits pages, stores them and follows new links so they can be found in Sogou search.

- Operator: Sogou
- Kind: Search engine crawler
- robots.txt token: none documented
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/sogou

## What is Sogou spider?

Sogou's search engine program, which visits pages, stores them and follows new links so they can be found in Sogou search.

Crawls pages for a classic search index. Blocking it removes you from that search engine.

Sogou says its spider supports robots.txt but names no token and publishes no user agent string. It says robots.txt changes may take weeks to take effect.

- [Sogou’s documentation](https://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm)

## Should you block Sogou spider?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

## How to block Sogou spider in robots.txt

Sogou documents no robots.txt token for Sogou spider that we could confirm, so we don’t suggest one here. Block it at your server or firewall by user agent instead.

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really Sogou spider

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

Sogou publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for Sogou spider that we could find, so there is no reliable way to tell a real Sogou spider from a scraper using its user agent.

## See when Sogou spider reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is Sogou spider?

Sogou spider is a search engine crawler run by Sogou. Sogou's search engine program, which visits pages, stores them and follows new links so they can be found in Sogou search.

### Is Sogou spider safe to block?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

### How do I block Sogou spider?

Sogou documents no robots.txt token for it that we could confirm, so block it at your server or firewall by its user agent.