search indexes

Baiduspider

Operated by Baidu · Search indexes

Baidu's main search crawler, indexing pages for China's largest search engine.

When Baiduspider shows up in your logs

Baidu is indexing your page for search. With no published IP ranges, treat the user agent as a signal, not proof.

Discovery crawlers that keep a search or answer index fresh.

Allow or block it in robots.txt

A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.

allow
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow:
block
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

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