Sogou web spider

Sogou search's web crawler. Sogou says it follows robots.txt and can be verified by reverse DNS (*.sogou.com) or Web Bot Auth signatures.

What happens if you block it

Pages you disallow can't be found on Sogou. Sogou doesn't say whether Tencent's Yuanbao uses its index.

Our take

Keep it if you want search traffic in China.

robots.txt

To block it:

User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /

To allow it explicitly (useful when a wider rule blocks other bots):

User-agent: Sogou web spider
Allow: /

The operator's own words

PC端UA为 Sogou web spider搜狗（腾讯） documentation, checked 2026-11-02

robots.txt allows it, but is it really getting through?

A firewall or CDN rule can reject Sogou web spider even when robots.txt welcomes it, and nothing in your CMS shows it. Our check sends a live request as Sogou web spider alongside a normal browser and a Googlebot control, so a bot-verification rule isn't mistaken for a block.