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Sogou Spider

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Sogou Spider is the web crawler for Sogou, a major Chinese search engine (owned by Tencent). It crawls and indexes web pages, news, and images to build Sogou's search index.

Operated by Sogou · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexSogou
  • observedSogou News Spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)
  • observedSogou Pic Spider/3.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)
  • observedSogou web spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.