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Practical guides, benchmarks and product news from the people building OpenWeb Ninja.
Announcement
Google Search Links Now Go Through /goto Redirects. Here Is What Changed.
Since late August 2026, result links on signed-out Google search pages are signed /goto?url= redirect tokens that change on every page load. What we measured across web, forums, videos, images and news, how the redirect behaves, where the real URL still lives, and why OpenWeb Ninja APIs keep returning it.
Roundup
Best Google Maps APIs in 2026: 8 Tested and Compared
The same Google Maps local search and the same place lookup through 8 business data APIs, with every published price pulled the same day, cost per 1,000 places for search, details, and reviews, endpoint coverage, measured response times, and what the official Places API (New) costs.
Roundup
Best Amazon APIs in 2026: 8 Tested and Compared
The same Amazon product lookup and keyword search through 8 APIs, with every published price pulled the same day, endpoint and marketplace coverage, measured response times, and where the official Creators API and Keepa fit.
Roundup
Best E-Commerce APIs in 2026: 7 Tested and Compared
We compared 7 e-commerce APIs for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Home Depot data on live September 2026 pricing, retailer coverage, and response shape. Who each one is best for, with code and JSON.
Announcement
Google Moved Events Into Search Results. Here Is What Changed.
Google retired its standalone events pages in August 2026; events now exist only as a carousel inside regular search results. What the new feature does and does not offer, and the full changelog for the Real-Time Events Data API.
Reference
All Google Maps Business Categories (4,047)
There are more than 4,000 business categories on Google Maps, used by 200+ million businesses worldwide. Here they all are on one page, as plain text you can copy.
Reference
The 500 Most Common Google Maps Categories
Google Maps supports over 4,000 categories, but 500 cover 80%+ of the map. Ranked by how many businesses actually use each one.
Guide
How to Get eBay Sold and Completed Listings in 2026
eBay put sold and completed listings behind a sign-in wall across every marketplace. What changed, why your sold-price scripts broke, and how to pull that data programmatically with no eBay account.
Tutorial
Give Your AI Agent Live Web Search: Grounding LLM Answers
The fetch-then-cite pattern: query live web search at answer time, hand the model the results, require citations. About 40 lines of code, demonstrated end to end on a 2026 question.