Gulbahar Karatas
Gülbahar is an AIMultiple industry analyst focused on web data collection, applications of web data and application security.
Professional experience
She previously worked as a marketer in U.S. Commercial Service.
Research interests
She is a frequent user of the products that she researches. For example, she is part of AIMultiple's web data benchmark team that has been annually measuring the performance of top web data infrastructure providers.
Education
Gülbahar has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management in 9 Eylul University.
Latest Articles from Gulbahar
Best Gaming Proxies for Live Games, Launchers & Stores
The right gaming proxy server depends on the traffic you need to route. Live game-client traffic may require SOCKS5 with UDP support and open target ports, while launchers, storefronts, marketplaces, account pages, and regional availability checks often work over HTTP(S) or TCP-based SOCKS5. SOCKS5 can support UDP through the UDP ASSOCIATE command, but provider support…
Best Indian Proxies: Benchmark-Based Ranking
We benchmarked leading India proxy server providers using the same target schedule and URL pool. Each provider sent one request to the same URL every 10 minutes across major Indian platforms, including Flipkart, Amazon India, and IndiaMART. The ranking below is based on the benchmark charts. Success rate was weighted more heavily than average response…
IPv6 Proxy Providers Compared by Pricing & Performance
The term IPv6 proxy does not describe a single product type. Vendors may provide IPv6 support for residential, datacenter, ISP proxies, or combinations. For example, some proxy vendors support IPv6-only residential routing but do not offer IPv6 for datacenter or ISP proxies. We measured providers’ performance across residential and datacenter proxies to evaluate the network…
Top 5 Social Media Datasets in 2026
We compared five leading social media data providers, focusing on the types of social data they offer and the platforms they include. For clarity, these providers fall into two groups: Content-level social media data (posts, comments, engagement) Profile- or identity-level data (social handles, professional profiles, company info). Platform coverage of social media dataset providers ProviderInstagramTikTokYouTubeFacebookTwitter/XRedditLinkedInPinterestQuoraGitHub…
Best YouTube Datasets: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Grepsr
YouTube has become a primary source for training advanced multimodal AI and large language models (LLMs). However, obtaining YouTube data at scale remains difficult due to anti-bot measures and significant bandwidth requirements. This review examines key companies in the YouTube data sector: Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, and Grepsr. Each targets a specific market segment, ranging…
8 Best Chrome Proxy Extensions in 2026: Free & Premium
Choosing the best proxy for the Chrome browser is necessary for accessing restricted sites. However, not all extensions work the same way. To find the right tool, you first need to understand the two main categories of Chrome proxy extensions: Universal proxy managers: These allow you to use proxies from any provider. For users who…
Best Instagram Proxies for 2026: Residential & Mobile IPs
Instagram restricts and flags accounts that automate access to or scrape Instagram data at scale. 1 Managing multiple Instagram accounts or running Instagram automation safely often requires a reliable proxy provider. We evaluated the top Instagram proxy providers for reliability and geographic coverage: Pricing of the best Instagram proxy services The table below summarizes the…
Best Japan Proxies: Success Rate & Response Time
We evaluated top Japan residential proxies across 1,000 URLs per domain every 10 minutes. Vendors were measured against the same target domains, from the same benchmark location, using the same request frequency and URL rotation strategy. Overall, the top providers performed closely enough that most buyers should not choose based on success rate alone. Instead,…
Decodo Review 2026: Pricing, Speed & Success Rates
Decodo is a proxy and web-scraping provider covering residential, ISP, mobile, and datacenter proxies plus scraping APIs. We benchmarked its per-GB pricing against competing providers from 10 GB to 10 TB and reviewed its published performance and feature set. Decodo pros and cons Pros Cost-efficiency leader in our proxy pricing benchmark across every tier from…
Best Search Engine Proxies: 2026 Benchmark
Search engines are among the toughest targets our team scrapes at AIMultiple. Google, Bing, and Yandex flag and throttle automated queries within a handful of requests from the same address, so a proxy that sails through an ordinary website can still stall on a results page. To see which providers actually hold up, we benchmarked…
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