// Hacker Noon · 5 June 2026

An Eight-Week Analysis of Accept-Language Headers Across Major AI Bots

I logged the Accept-Language header on 51,884 verified AI-bot requests over eight weeks. There is no shared convention. Most training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot, Bingbot, Amazonbot) send nothing. Googlebot sends a bare *. Claude-Web sends a hardcoded en-US,en;q=0.9. Only the live fetchers...

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