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Sosospider

Sosospider is the search index crawler run by Tencent Soso: Soso. Its operator publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for it, so a request carrying this name cannot be verified. Treat the name in a log line as a claim.

User-agent tokenSosospider
OperatorTencent Soso
What it doesSoso
Kindsearch index crawler
Can a request be verified?No — user agent string only
In a CrawlCheck scanRead from robots.txt; reported, never scored

Allow or block it in robots.txt

User-agent: Sosospider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Sosospider
Allow: /

Add a group that names it: "User-agent: Sosospider" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names Sosospider, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.

What blocking it changes

No. It indexes for a regional search engine; allowing it matters only if you serve that market.

See what Sosospider and every other named agent receive from your own site: run a free scan. The full catalogue is on AI crawlers and as JSON at /ai-crawlers.json.

Questions about Sosospider

QHow do I block Sosospider in robots.txt?
Add a group that names it: "User-agent: Sosospider" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names Sosospider, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.
QHow can I tell if a request from Sosospider is real?
Its operator publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for it, so a request carrying this name cannot be verified. Treat the name in a log line as a claim.
QDoes blocking Sosospider affect whether my site appears in AI answers?
No. It indexes for a regional search engine; allowing it matters only if you serve that market.
QDoes CrawlCheck test my site as Sosospider?
Not as a request. CrawlCheck reads the rules your robots.txt sets for Sosospider and reports them. Rules for it are reported and never scored, because refusing it is a policy choice.