Sogou web spider
recommended: allowSogou web spider is the web crawler operated by Sogou, a Chinese search engine company. This bot discovers and indexes content for Sogou's search results to build and maintain their search index.
What it does
Sogou web spider follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl directives more reliably than most other bots.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Sogou web spider
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Sogou web spider:
Allow full access
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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