# Donor-database site blocks Amazon's AI crawler after logging 117,000 daily requests

Published: 2026-08-08T10:48:44.091Z · Source: PPC Land (https://ppc.land/patronview-blocks-amazons-ai-crawler-after-117-000-daily-page-reads/)
Source date: 2026-08-08
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Entities: anthropic, cloudflare

PatronView, a database of U.S. museum and cultural-institution donor records, blocked Amazon's Amzn-SearchBot crawler in early August after founder Nick Gray logged roughly 117,000 requests from it in a single day, he said in published server-log findings. The site had already blocked Anthropic's Claude-SearchBot in June after measuring a 35,000-to-1 ratio of crawls to human visitors referred; a 48-hour CAPTCHA challenge in the same period drew 106,437 attempts and only 252 solves, a 0.24% rate, per the log data cited by PPC Land.

Why it matters: It's a rare, publicly documented data point on how disproportionate AI-crawler traffic can run relative to referral value, and it shows the kind of math behind operators moving from monitoring to outright blocks ahead of Cloudflare's September 15 default block.

## What this answers

**How many times a day did Amazon's AI crawler request PatronView's site?**

Founder Nick Gray recorded roughly 117,000 daily requests from Amazon's Amzn-SearchBot before blocking it in early August 2026, according to his published server-log findings cited by PPC Land.

**What CAPTCHA solve rate did AI crawlers show before PatronView blocked them?**

Over a 48-hour window, PatronView issued 106,437 CAPTCHA challenges and only 252 were solved — a 0.24% solve rate, per the site's server-log findings.


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