YandexImages
Yandex's search engine.
- Operator
- Yandex
- Type
- Search engine
- In the user agent
YandexImages- robots.txt token
YandexImages- Follows robots.txt
- says it follows robots.txt
- Official documentation
- yandex.com
- Checked on
- 2026-11-11
What is YandexImages?
YandexImages is Yandex's search engine. It indexes pages for a search engine, whose results also feed AI answers.
The operator's description: Indexes images for Yandex Images.
(yandex.com)
How do I block or allow YandexImages?
With robots.txt, using the token YandexImages. Yandex says it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.
How do I see whether YandexImages visits my site?
In your server or CDN access logs, look for YandexImages in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.
Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often YandexImages came, which pages it read and what that brought you.
How do I know it is really YandexImages?
The IP's reverse DNS, confirmed forward and back, must end in .yandex.ru or .yandex.net or .yandex.com.
Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.
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