The goal of the company, which was founded for $183,000, was, they say, to get rid of Google’s hegemony, but that never worked. “native Google” They couldn’t. We’ll be hearing the name Google a lot soon for a variety of reasons.
It is said that they spent 10 million dollars for its development, but which erupts 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 studied at Texas Technology University. In 2009, they looked for a name for the search engine they would develop and chose “Geliyoo”. The reason is the arrival of a new technology It was a reference.
They got the company’s financial backing from the owners of a retail company called OSEM Enterprises Inc in Texas, USA, and started the development process. 150 Turkish engineers they added to their team. According to what they said, until 2012 they spent 741 thousand euros. In 2015, they wrote a letter to the president asking 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 be 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 special.
Geliyoo had an automatic news gathering algorithm. It collected 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 received harsh criticism from the media.

The company claims that for the production of Geliyoo 10 million TL in 10 years had been issued. According to the news that emerged in 2017, the company was actually using Google’s infrastructure! In fact, it wasn’t enough: it returned search results that were exactly the same as Google’s.
Video calls were retrieved directly from YouTube. In brief From searches you make on YouTube or Google There was no difference. Moreover, the site theme was available online for $59 and it didn’t even take an hour to install. Were the 10 million they said they spent really for the sake of this system?
The answer comes from Geliyoo.

The owners of Geliyoo, which was widely criticized in the press, obviously had to make a statement and stated that TL 10 million had not been spent on the software currently on Geliyoo.com and that the script used was not used by the company because there were not enough resources and budget. It has nothing to do with the real infrastructure. they claimed.
To read their full statement, please scroll to the bottom of the news below:
Later, other search engines were created to mock Geliyoo:
Gidiyoo.org

Gelemiyoo.com

Currently you can access the test version of Geliyoo via geliyoo.com.tr, but it cannot be said that it works very well.

Sources: Geliyoo Bilişim, Evrensel, Wikipedia
Our other content that may interest you:
Follow Webtekno on Threads and don’t miss the news