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SBIntuitions-SearchBot

Visits websites on a user's behalf when they ask a question in Sarashina, the assistant from SoftBank's SB Intuitions, and may link to them in the answer. The company says this content is not used for AI development.

robots.txt name
SBIntuitions-SearchBot
User agent
SBIntuitions-SearchBot
Category
AI answers: Fetch a page when someone asks an assistant about it.
Follows robots.txt
Yes
Official documentation
https://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/bot/

Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.

Block or allow it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: SBIntuitions-SearchBot
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: SBIntuitions-SearchBot
Disallow: /private/

Is it really this bot?

Anyone can copy a user agent, and SB Intuitions does not publish IP ranges for this bot. A reverse DNS lookup of the IP address may help; check the official documentation.

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