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
12 Best Cheap Residential Proxies
As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites. To identify reliable residential proxy providers, we benchmark across 10 vendors and process 2,880 requests per day, or 86,400 over a 30-day period. While we analyze the main providers (both rotating residential proxies and static residential proxies) in detail further down, the table below…
Top Google Proxies: Benchmark
Google proxies have become essential infrastructure for extracting data from Google at scale. Whether you are tracking rankings across hundreds of locations, verifying ads, or feeding SERP data into an SEO platform. To find out which providers hold up under real load, we sent 5,000 requests to Google search results through residential IPs. See the…
Cheapest Proxies for Low-Volume:10–200 GB Compared
Proxy providers often promote the lowest per-GB rate available on their largest plans. A buyer needing 10 or 50 GB can pay several times that rate when the provider imposes a fixed monthly charge. We compared the total cost of selected residential, mobile and datacenter proxy products at 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 GB.…
Top 10 Proxy Sites & Providers: Benchmark Results
We test the best proxy providers on major search, e-commerce, and social platforms. Every 20 minutes, we send a new batch of requests from servers in Europe, the US, Singapore, and Brazil. The results below compare providers on success rate and response time, followed by prices and details for each provider. We expanded our benchmark…
Speech Recognition: 12 Use Cases & Examples
Businesses generate large volumes of voice data from calls, meetings, and voice interfaces, but manually processing this data is slow and difficult to scale. Speech recognition (also called automatic speech recognition or speech-to-text) converts spoken language into text, enabling systems to analyze and automate voice-based workflows such as call transcription, voice assistants, and meeting summaries.…
Bright Data Proxies: Features and Pricing
Bright Data expanded its platform beyond traditional proxy infrastructure. The company introduced Web MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools designed for AI agents and automated systems, enabling programmatic web browsing, scraping, and search capabilities optimized for LLM-based workflows. This development positions Bright Data not just as a proxy provider but also as an infrastructure platform for…
Best Facebook Scrapers: Apify, Bright Data & Decodo
Using Python and a managed Facebook scraping API lets you collect public posts, comments, likes, and shares. This tutorial demonstrates how to scrape Facebook posts by keyword and retrieve their URLs via Google search. Then it explains how to extract detailed post data using the API, along with tips for scaling the process with tools…
Top 12 Antidetect Browsers Evaluated
We evaluated the best free and paid antidetect browsers in 4 dimensions for performance and usability: ** Access and manage your browser profiles and settings through a mobile app. AdsPower Browser’s emphasis on automation makes it highly effective for specific use cases. It is ideal for users focused on desktop-based tasks and those managing automation…
Best LinkedIn Proxies: Automation & Scraping
We benchmarked different proxy types for LinkedIn scraping and account management. A proxy alone won’t keep a LinkedIn account safe. Success comes from slow, human-like actions, one high-quality residential or mobile proxy per account, and avoiding aggressive automation. The providers below are compared for general proxy capabilities and lawful, authorized use cases. Bright Data offers…
LinkedIn Datasets: Profile & Company Data
LinkedIn datasets can be categorized into profile data and company data: It’s important to know the different types of LinkedIn data available when buying from a verified provider or seeking a specific company dataset. Common fields across all providers: The following fields are present in all three providers and were removed from the tables above…
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