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 Glassdoor Datasets in 2026
Glassdoor datasets offer useful insights into job listings, employer reviews, and salaries, but they are not the exclusive source of labor-market or employer-brand data. We review the four top providers of Glassdoor datasets: Bright Data, Coresignal, Oxylabs, and Actowiz. Our evaluation covers each provider’s dataset structure, extraction techniques, update schedules, delivery options, and pricing models.…
LinkedIn Datasets in 2026: Sources for 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…
Best Enterprise Proxy Servers in 2026
We tested the best enterprise proxy service providers with 30 million requests, across 100,000 parallel requests, to identify the most reliable options for large-scale operations. See the top performance leaders based on our benchmark. Detailed reviews for all providers are included below. All benchmarked providers delivered a high success rate (at least ~80%) and fast…
How to Configure Android Proxy Server Settings
On Android, you can configure a proxy for each Wi-Fi network in the settings app. Once you set it for a network, it stays saved, but you need to repeat the process for every network you want to use with a proxy. Before you begin, there are three things you should know: There’s a difference…
Anonymous Proxies: Levels & Providers
When providers advertise anonymous proxies, they usually mean proxies that conceal the user’s IP address. These are technically elite proxies, not the intermediate anonymous type that reveals itself as a proxy. The intermediate level mainly appears on free proxy lists. A proxy is a middleman between you and a website. Your request goes to the…
Top Cheap Shared Proxies: Benchmark Results & Providers Compared
Shared proxies are the entry point for most scraping operations; they’re cheap enough to test with and abundant enough to scale. That trade-off plays out differently depending on which proxy type you’re buying. In our benchmark across residential, datacenter, and mobile shared proxy networks, the performance spread between providers was wide in some categories and…
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 as a proxy provider but also as an infrastructure platform for AI-powered…
Telegram Proxy Setting: Free Links & Step-by-Step
Telegram supports two proxy types in its apps: SOCKS5 and MTProto. SOCKS5 uses a server and port, with username and password optional. MTProto uses a server, port, and a required secret. Telegram also supports proxy links that can open and prefill these settings for you. We tested the free tiers of three SOCKS5 Telegram proxies…
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, and two things have changed in the last year: Only Oxylabs, Webshare, Bright Data, and Decodo include proxies. The rest are managers; you supply the proxy server. Most free claims in this category…
Top Google Proxies for Scalable Google Scraping (2026 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 and measured…
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