Sogou

Last updated 2 days ago.

Non-Compliant

What is Sogou?

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Sogou

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Did you find Sogou News Spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07) in your logs?

If you've seen Sogou News Spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07) in your website logs, it indicates that Sogou has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Sogou News Spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

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Sogou Pic Spider/3.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

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Did you find Sogou web spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07) in your logs?

If you've seen Sogou web spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07) in your website logs, it indicates that Sogou has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Sogou web spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block Sogou?

This bot is marked as non-compliant, which may mean it doesn't respect robots.txt or engages in aggressive crawling behavior. You may want to consider blocking it if it's causing issues for your site.

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How Do I Block Sogou?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

SogouShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block Sogou

User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

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