Case study · Updated November 12, 2026
Answers on our own site
On October 7, 2026 we turned Proxylang Answers on for proxylang.dev. It writes answer-first articles on answers.proxylang.dev and asks five AI assistants our customers' questions every week. Here is what happened, including the weeks where nothing moved. We update this page weekly to show our progress.
What we published
116 articles went live on answers.proxylang.dev between October 6 and November 12: 29 in English, 12 in Spanish, 11 in Arabic, 11 in Korean, 10 in French, 9 in Bangla, 9 in Hindi, 9 in Japanese, 9 in Chinese (China) and 7 in Portuguese. Each one is written in its own language, not translated. 34 more failed our fact check and wait for a person to look at them.
Who came to read them
AI and search crawlers found the articles within days. From October 7 to November 12 they visited answers.proxylang.dev 669 times:
| Crawler | Run by | Visits |
|---|---|---|
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | 341 |
| GPTBot | OpenAI | 125 |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | 94 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI (ChatGPT search) | 73 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | 25 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI (ChatGPT, for a user) | 10 |
| Google-Extended | 1 |
Did AI start naming us?
Every week we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity the same questions, one answer each. Some questions already say "Proxylang". Most don't: they are what a buyer types before they have heard of us.
| Weekly check | Asked by name: named us | General question: named us |
|---|---|---|
| October 8 | 10 of 10 | 0 of 39 |
| October 15 | 10 of 10 | 0 of 40 |
| October 22 | 15 of 15 | 2 of 85 |
| October 29 | 15 of 15 | 4 of 85 |
| November 5 | 15 of 15 | 1 of 50 |
| November 12 | 0 of 0 | 0 of 65 |
Asked by name, every AI knew us from the start. Asked a general question, none named us in the first two weeks. On October 22, for the first time, two did: asked "Is there a no-code translation service that supports 77 languages?", Perplexity and Gemini named Proxylang; Gemini also linked to proxylang.dev. That week we also doubled the questions we track to 20, adding Korean and Japanese ones, which is why the counts jump.
What we take from it
- Getting read is fast. The crawlers came in the first week.
- Getting named for general questions is slow. In the newest check, 0 of 65 answers named us.
- We keep publishing and checking every week, and this page shows each new check.