In March 2004, Hakia was found before there weren’t even many search engines that could beat the artificial intelligence tools. Similar to ChatGPT, unlike the keyword search engines of the timewas a semantic search engine.

Derived from the Finnish word “hakija”, meaning “explorer”, is Hakia co-founder of Turkcell He even received a $5 million investment from Murat Vargı. Let’s take a closer look at how Hakia, the first Turkish search engine, came about, what it did and why it failed.

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Hakia, headquartered in New York City; using computational linguistics, mathematics, ontological semantics and fuzzy logic an indexing infrastructure technology revealed.

In those years, when other search engines, including Google, did keyword analysis, Hakia planned to go further. Search engine that talks to you It would be kind of your assistant. It must sound familiar to you…

He wanted to take away Google’s uniqueness in Turkey.

Founded in 2004, Hakia received an investment of $11 million in 2 years and the Turkish version was also released in 2008. Actually, Hakia’s plan from the very beginning, It was supposed to replace Google in Turkey.

from Hakia; QDEX Engine (analyzes sentence-level queries) and SemanticRank Algorithm (ontological semantic mapping concepts) two technologies existed.

It continued its development by adding other subcategories.

In 2008, several sub-search categories were also added. This; items such as trusted sites, images, meeting others, news. Moreover, in the same year one of the top 10 semantic web products chosen.

In 2011, Hakia lost its search engine features. To provide services in the stock market and economy decided and completely ceased its activities in 2014.

Unfortunately, Hakia failed to achieve her goals.

There were issues with the query function, but one of the main reasons for the closure was, unsurprisingly, The Internet and Google’s search engines was his dominion.

Even when Hakia was closed, the context of 2004 and beyond was really taken into account. they have a serious vision Cannot be denied.