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Kimi-SearchBot

Moonshot AI's search crawler that analyzes pages for relevance and builds the index behind Kimi search.
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What is Kimi-SearchBot?

Kimi-SearchBot is one of the crawlers listed on Moonshot AI's Kimi crawlers page. The page names KimiBot for training, Kimi-SearchBot for search, and Kimi-User for user-triggered retrieval, and says each is configured independently.

The documented user agent is Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers. Moonshot AI publishes its IP ranges in a JSON file, and says robots.txt is the primary way to manage the crawlers because its IP ranges can change.

Moonshot AI treats each subdomain as a separate origin, so robots.txt rules need to be set per subdomain. It supports Crawl-delay to space out requests.

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Is Kimi-SearchBot relevant for AI search?

Yes. Kimi-SearchBot builds the index behind Kimi's search, so blocking it keeps your site out of Kimi search results.

Kimi-SearchBot analyzes pages for relevance and builds the search index that Kimi uses. Moonshot AI says that disallowing it prevents your site from appearing in Kimi search results. Training collection is handled by a separate crawler, KimiBot, so this one is a pure visibility decision.

How to handle Kimi-SearchBot

Keep Kimi-SearchBot allowed if you want to show up in Kimi search. To opt out:

User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
Disallow: /

Set the rule on every subdomain you care about. Moonshot AI recommends robots.txt over IP blocking, because blocking its IPs can stop it from reading your latest robots.txt. Manage KimiBot separately if you want to decide on training.

Examples

  • A publisher allows Kimi-SearchBot but disallows `KimiBot` so pages can appear in Kimi search without joining training data.
  • A site owner adds a `Crawl-delay` for Kimi-SearchBot after seeing heavy traffic on a large catalog.

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Yes. Moonshot AI says it uses industry-standard robots.txt directives for its crawlers and recommends them as the primary control.

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