The Story of Local and National Search Engine “Geliyoo” Failing to Arrive

The aim of the company, which was founded for 183 thousand dollars, was, they say, to get rid of Google hegemony, but it was never “native Google” They couldn’t. We will be hearing the name of Google a lot soon for various reasons.

It is said that they spent 10 million dollars for its development, but erupting from many places What was the fate of this company? Who founded it and what happened next?

Two Turkish entrepreneurs decided to open a local and national search engine company.

Hakan Akbaş was a businessman who graduated from METU. Fatih Arslan was a student at Texas Technology University. In 2009, they looked for a name for the search engine they would develop and decided on “Geliyoo”. The reason is the arrival of a new technology It was a reference.

They received the company’s financial support from the owners of a retail company called OSEM Enterprises Inc in Texas, USA, and started the development process. 150 Turkish engineers added them to their team. According to what they said, they spent 741 thousand euros until 2012. In 2015, they wrote a letter to the president and asked for support.

Their claim was to get rid of Google’s hegemony and become the Yandex of the Russians and the Baidu of the Chinese.

From now on, Turks would have their own search engine and Google would become a thing of the past. Geliyoo in January 2017; came to life and their logo is on the Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Google It was similar. At first glance, they didn’t seem to have produced anything very unique.

Geliyoo had an automatic news gathering algorithm. It was collecting news and articles published in the last 30 days. By March 2019, “Turkey’s first domestic browser” It was published as. It had built-in media sharing and downloading features.

However, there were many problems and he was subjected to harsh criticism from the media.

The company claims that for the production of Geliyoo 10 million TL in 10 years was spent. According to the news that emerged in 2017, it was actually using Google infrastructure! In fact, it wasn’t enough, it was returning search results exactly the same as Google.

Video calls were fetched directly from YouTube. In short From searches you make on YouTube or Google There was no difference. Moreover, the site theme was available online for $59 and it did not even take an hour to install. Was the 10 million they said they spent really for the sake of this system?

The answer is coming from Geliyoo.

The owners of Geliyoo, which was subject to a lot of criticism in the press, of course had to make a statement and stated that 10 million TL was not spent on the software currently on Geliyoo.com and that the script used was not used by the company since there were not enough resources and budget. It has nothing to do with its real infrastructure. they claimed.

To read their full statement, you can scroll down to the bottom of the news below:

Later, other search engines were made to mock Geliyoo:

Gidiyoo.org

Gelemiyoo.com

Currently, you can access the test version of Geliyoo from geliyoo.com.tr, but it cannot be said to work very well.

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