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I Tried Google Maps Scraping API for Leads — Here’s What Broke First

The first time I tried scraping Google Maps, I thought it would be easy.

Tried scraping Google Maps with Selenium.

Worked for 1 day. Spent the next 2 weeks fixing CAPTCHAs.

Lesson learned. 💀

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CAPTCHAs are evil. Use Google Search API instead and save hours of debugging.

Get real-time SERP data from Google and other major search engines through an API, with geo-targeting support. Only pay for successful reque

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Most SEO Teams Use SERPs Wrong. Here’s How a SERP API Changes That

I Stopped Guessing SEO Opportunities After I Started Using a SERP API

I’ve started thinking of Google’s SERP as a dataset.

Not a destination.

That mental shift alone changed how I do SEO.

SERP APIs just make it programmable.

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Most SEO Teams Use SERPs Wrong. Here’s How a SERP API Changes That

I Stopped Guessing SEO Opportunities After I Started Using a SERP API

Most SEO tools summarize search.

SERP APIs expose search.

Big difference.

One gives metrics.

The other shows how Google actually structures opportunity.

That’s where the interesting stuff is.

#seo #serpapi #growth

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What Are Residential Proxies? A Complete Beginner Guide (2026)

In today’s data-driven internet environment, businesses and individuals increasingly rely on proxies to collect public web data, verify…

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Merchant feeds tell you what a seller wants Google to know.

Google Shopping SERPs show what the market actually looks like.

That gap matters.

Especially if you care about:

price monitoring competitor tracking product visibility ad placement marketplace intelligence

The feed is the input.

The SERP is the battlefield.

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I Tried to Track Google Shopping Results Manually. It Broke Faster Than I Expected

I used to think Google Shopping data was simple.

I used to think Google Shopping tracking was just “search product, copy price, repeat.”

Then I tried doing it across locations.

Everything changed.

Same keyword. Different city. Different sellers. Different prices. Different sponsored placements.

That is when Google Shopping stopped looking like a search page and started looking like a live market signal.

A Google Shopping SERP API is useful because it captures what buyers actually see, not just what merchants submit.

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I Tested TalorData vs Oxylabs for SERP Scraping — Here’s What Surprised Me

TalorData vs Oxylabs: I Tested Both for Search Data at Scale (One Felt Built for 2026)

Hot take:

Using proxy-heavy stacks for search-specific data may be becoming legacy architecture.

After testing TalorData vs Oxylabs…

I kind of believe search infrastructure is its own category now.

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Most people compare SERP APIs and proxy networks like direct competitors.

I tested TalorData vs Oxylabs…

Honestly? They solve different problems.

One feels built for scraping.

The other feels built for AI-era search infrastructure.

Big difference.

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Counterintuitive thing I learned:

More IPs didn’t reduce blocks.

Cleaner IPs did.

That changed how I build scraping stacks.

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I used to think cheap proxies were “good enough.”

They weren’t.

They passed tests and failed under real traffic.

Biggest lesson:

Proxy quality matters more than giant IP pools.

I Burned Money on Cheap Proxies Before Real Scraping Taught Me This

My Scraper Kept Getting Blocked — Cheap Proxies Were the Real Problem

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We Thought a SERP API Would Scale Our Scraping — It Quietly Made Things Worse

I used to think SERP APIs were the shortcut. Less blocking, less maintenance, clean search data. Then one project made me realize something…

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Hot take:People overuse SERP APIs.

We Thought a SERP API Would Scale Our Scraping — It Quietly Made Things Worse

I used to think SERP APIs were the shortcut. Less blocking, less maintenance, clean search data. Then one project made me realize something…

They use them for:

data collection that should hit source sites

query workloads where economics break

problems that are actually proxy/infrastructure problems

I learned this the expensive way.

SERP APIs are great for leverage. Terrible as a universal default.

Sometimes scraping Google is the detour. Not the shortcut.

And yes — better infrastructure (I’ve liked stacks like TalorData for this) often fixes what people try solving with “one more API.”

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Most AI tools don’t struggle because the model is weak.

I Thought AI Needed Better Models — It Actually Needed Better Search Data

My first instinct when an AI workflow performed badly was always the same:

They struggle because the search data underneath is messy.

Structured search turned out to matter more than better prompting.

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What is SERP API?

What is a SERP API? I Didn’t Get It Until My Google Scraper Broke

A SERP API is a service that lets you get structured search engine results without dealing with scraping, proxies, or getting blocked every…

A SERP API is a service that lets you get structured search engine results without dealing with scraping, proxies, or getting blocked every few minutes.

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My Google Scraper Suddenly Stopped Working

Most people think scraping Google is a proxy problem. It’s not. It’s a behavior problem.

My Google Scraper Worked… Until It Didn’t (Here’s What Broke It)

My Google Scraper Suddenly Stopped Working

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My Google Scraper Worked… Until It Didn’t (Here’s What Broke It)

My Google Scraper Suddenly Stopped Working

My Google scraper worked perfectly — until it suddenly started returning CAPTCHAs and garbage data. Turns out it wasn’t my code. It was how obvious my traffic looked.