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 basic &start= parameter method we covered in our previous guide works for simple scraping tasks, but it quickly falls apart when scraping at scale or dealing with modern Google Search’s dynamic content. Today’s Google Search is not a static HTML page – it’s a complex web application that loads most content dynamically with JavaScript….