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YisouSpider

UCWeb / Alibaba (Shenma)Honours robots.txt

Crawls to build the index for Shenma (SM.CN), the mobile search engine from UCWeb and Alibaba. Relevant to Shenma search visibility on Chinese mobile. No confirmed link to Qwen's retrieval.

User-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YisouSpider/5.0; +http://www.yisou.com/help/help_faq.html)

How to verify it

Alibaba ASN verification.

What blocking costs

Relevant to Shenma search visibility on Chinese mobile. No confirmed link to Qwen's retrieval.

robots.txt rule

# Block YisouSpider
User-agent: YisouSpider
Disallow: /

# Allow everything else
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Robots.txt is enough

UCWeb / Alibaba (Shenma) documents YisouSpider as honouring robots.txt. Verify with your logs after deploying — a spoofed agent will keep coming.

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