Seekport
GoodBotVerifiedBOTSeekport is an internet search engine. Originally founded in 2003, the search engine has been operated by SISTRIX, a platform intelligence provider from Bonn (Germany), since December 2014. The search engine is a public, free and independent alternative to Google. Seekport does not store user data and does not profile users. Seekport is also operated without advertising and has no conflicts of interest in the display of search results. Operated by SISTRIX.
What is Seekport?
Seekport is a web crawler operated by SISTRIX. Seekport is an internet search engine. Originally founded in 2003, the search engine has been operated by SISTRIX, a platform intelligence provider from Bonn (Germany), since December 2014.
The search engine is a public, free and independent alternative to Google. Seekport does not store user data and does not profile users. Seekport is also operated without advertising and has no conflicts of interest in the display of search results. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
SeekportBotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
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Why it crawls your site
Seekport crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by SISTRIX as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Seekport
Add a Disallow rule for SeekportBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Seekport from crawling your entire site User-agent: SeekportBot Disallow: / # Allow Seekport full access User-agent: SeekportBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows SeekportBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to SISTRIX's documentation.
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