Googlebot
Crawls pages for Google Search using desktop and smartphone variants.
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Sogou spider
Crawls web pages for Sogou Search using its web-spider identity.
Operated by Sogou
See your agent traffic PurposeWeb search
HTTP identifierSogou web spider
IdentityVerify beyond the name
THE SIGNAL
What this visit tells you
Sogou requests describe search-engine crawling, including pages that may never receive a search click.
URL coverage
Crawl errors
Repeat crawls
Your next move
Review the URLs Sogou requests and check that the intended public pages respond successfully.
The technical details
MarkdownHow to identify it
Look for the Sogou web spider identifier in a request’s User-Agent. This is a name match, not identity verification. Version strings may change.
How to check identity
A User-Agent match identifies a claimed client. Check the source IP and any operator-published verification method before granting access.
Access and robots.txt
The operator documents robots.txt rules for this identifier.
Optional full-site opt-out. Merge with existing rules only if intended. robots.txt does not secure private content.
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /Seeing 403 or 404 responses?
403 means access was denied; 404 means the resource was not found. Compare the public path, request time, edge security event and origin response to find the cause.
Separate intended restrictions and secret-file probes from pages that should work. A User-Agent name alone does not justify allowing a request.
SourcesReviewed 2026-09-14
Identity and purpose are based on these sources. Analytics interpretation and suggested checks are Apostl guidance.
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