Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
Sogou (Tencent) does not publish a way to verify Sogou web spider's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it. Read Sogou (Tencent)'s documentation.
How to block Sogou web spider
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from Sogou web spider's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block Sogou web spider from the whole site User-agent: Sogou web spider Disallow: /
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: Sogou web spider Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Nothing on record in the last 30 days.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 0 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
Where it comes from
The networks Sogou web spider's visits came from:
Nothing on record in the last 30 days.
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Questions site owners ask
Does Sogou web spider respect robots.txt?
We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.
Will blocking Sogou web spider hurt my search rankings?
Yes, for Sogou (Tencent)'s search engine. Blocked pages can drop out of its results. Other search engines are unaffected.
How often does Sogou web spider visit?
Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.