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
Is Web Scraping Legal? Laws & Best Practices
Legal regulations have changed in the web scraping market. While litigation once focused on unauthorized access, new lawsuits related to AI training and technical workarounds are shaping acceptable practices. Disclaimer: Our work is for informational purposes and not legal advice; please get professional legal advice for specific guidance. Web scraping is legal if you scrape…
We Tested the Best SERP Scraper APIs
We benchmarked the leading SERP providers using 18,000 live requests across Google, Bing, and Yandex. See the top 6 providers outperforming in our speed and data richness tests: Compare providers’ median response time and the average number of fields that they returned in our benchmark: 1,200 queries were used in this benchmark, including a total…
We Benchmarked the Best UK Proxies
We benchmarked the top UK proxy services against high-security British domains, including social media and e-commerce sites, to identify the best UK-based residential proxies. Tested at 15-minute intervals, here are our top picks based on success rates and speed: *Ranges show the minimum and maximum of the daily average success rates and response times measured…
Top 5 Free Chrome Extensions for Web Scraping
A Chrome web scraper extension enables you to collect data such as text, tables, links, images, and lists directly from your browser. Many extensions offer no-code workflows, AI-powered field detection, scheduled scraping, Google Sheets exports, and page-change monitoring. Compare the popular web scraper Chrome extensions by their key capabilities, export options, ease of use, and…
Best Discord Proxies: Free Plans, Features & Setup
Discord proxy compatibility depends on which part of Discord needs to be routed. Loading Discord Web requires HTTPS support. Receiving messages and server events depends on a Gateway WebSocket connection. Joining voice channels introduces a separate UDP requirement. The Discord desktop application creates an additional setup problem because it does not provide a documented field…
Best Google Shopping APIs
Selecting the best Google Shopping API depends on whether a business needs to manage its own Merchant Center data or collect public Google Shopping results for market intelligence. Google’s official Merchant API is designed to manage Merchant Center and product data programmatically, while third-party APIs such as SerpApi are used to scrape public Google Shopping…
NodeMaven Proxies: Pricing & Capabilities
NodeMaven is a proxy infrastructure provider offering rotating residential and mobile proxies, static residential proxies, proxy management tools, API access, and a managed scraping browser. NodeMaven combines residential and mobile IP access under the same bandwidth-based pricing structure. Users do not purchase a separate mobile-only traffic package; mobile addresses are included with the residential and…
Best Amazon Proxies: Benchmarks & Pricing
We tested proxy performance by connecting different services to scraper APIs and making more than 150,000 requests on seven Amazon domains (.com, .ca, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, and .es). Our benchmark compared the success rate and median latency for residential, datacenter, ISP, and unblocker proxies to give a data-based comparison. The following providers were identified…
Best High Speed Proxies Based on Our Benchmark
The fastest proxy is not always the one with the lowest response time. In real-world scraping and automation, speed is important, but requests must finish reliably. A provider that seems fast on its own but fails more often can cause more retries. We evaluated proxy providers on two metrics: average response time, which shows raw…
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,…
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