In September 2025, a quiet change to Google Search sent shockwaves through the SEO and web scraping industries. Without any official announcement or documentation, Google permanently disabled the &num=100 URL parameter, which had allowed users to view 100 search results on a single page for over 15 years. Dubbed the “Googlopocalypse” by SEO specialists, this…

The removal of Google’s &num=100 parameter has been called the biggest change to SEO in the last decade. For over 15 years, almost every SEO workflow was built around the ability to view and scrape 100 search results on a single page. Now, that foundation is gone. Many SEO professionals have struggled to adapt. Rank…