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
WhatsApp Proxy Setting: Setup & Free Options
WhatsApp proxies let you connect to WhatsApp through an intermediary server rather than directly. People use it for two different reasons: The proxy supports text messages and media. Voice and video calls won’t route through it. The free proxy providers listed below reliably run proxy services with large managed networks, transparent IP sourcing, and customer…
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 AI Web Scraping Tools in 2026 (Free & Paid)
AI web scrapers extract data by interpreting a page’s content rather than relying on fixed CSS selectors, so they keep working when a site changes layout. Compare the top tools on type, free tier, and pricing model. We included tools that use AI, such as LLMs, NLP, or vision models, to interpret page structure without…
Best Google Shopping APIs in 2026
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 for 2026: 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…
NetNut Takedown: What Buyers Need to Know
On July 2, 2026, the FBI seized hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a residential proxy network run by Nasdaq-listed Alarum Technologies (ALAR). Researchers and Google allege that at least part of NetNut’s exit-node pool overlapped with Popa, a residential-proxy botnet estimated by Google to have at least 2 million devices. Alarum disputes the allegations…
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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