Geliyoo
{{Short description|Turkish company founded in 2010}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Geliyoo Bilişim
| logo = Geliyoo 2015 logo.png
| logo_size =
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| type = Limited company
| founded = 18 November 2010
| founder = Buray Anıl Savaş
Fatih Arslan
| hq_location_country = Turkey
| key_people = Hakan Atabaş (CEO){{Cite web|url=https://www.iha.com.tr/haber-yerli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-test-yayinina-basladi-617525/|title=Yerli arama motoru 'Geliyoo' test yayınına başladı|date=17 January 2017|access-date=19 June 2022|website=İhlas News Agency|archive-date=7 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107000753/https://www.iha.com.tr/haber-yerli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-test-yayinina-basladi-617525/|url-status=live}}
Fatih Arslan
| services = Online search
| num_employees = 52
| website = {{URL|www.geliyoo.com}}
}}
Geliyoo is a Turkish company specializing in internet-related services and products. Founded on 18 November 2010 by Buray Anıl Savaş and Fatih Arslan, development had started a year earlier, in 2009. Geliyoo's services include a news aggregator and a search engine, which were released in 2013, and an in-development browser. The search engine had a major update in 2017, but as of 2022 is no longer available.
The company faced criticism in 2017, when it was revealed that it used a script sold on the internet to retrieve and show results from Google for its search engine, and when its website theme was also found to have been purchased from a third party. Geliyoo has also been accused of being a propaganda tool of the Turkish Government.
History
The company was founded on 18 November 2010{{Cite web|url=https://www.evrensel.net/haber/304484/yerli-ve-milli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-10-yildir-gelemedi|title='Yerli ve milli' arama motoru Geliyoo, 10 yıldır gelemedi|date=18 January 2017|access-date=26 June 2022|author=Mehmet Özer|website=Evrensel|archive-date=12 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312115208/https://www.evrensel.net/haber/304484/yerli-ve-milli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-10-yildir-gelemedi|url-status=live}} by Buray Anıl Savaş and Fatih Arslan.{{Cite web|url=http://geliyoobilisim.com/about.html|title=Geliyoo – Hakkımızda|access-date=19 June 2022|website=Geliyoo|archive-date=16 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150816060108/http://geliyoobilisim.com/about.html|url-status=dead}} Geliyoo is a noun formed from the verb "to come". In an interview with the İhlas News Agency, Fatih Arslan said that the name was chosen because it was commonly used in the Turkish language. According to a single announcement in 2010 by Demirören News Agency, the technology was developed by a team of 150 all-Turkish engineers, calling it the "National Google".{{Cite web|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yerel-haberler/ankara/yerli-google-geliyoo-com-16318424|title=Yerli Google: 'geliyoo.com'|date=18 November 2011|access-date=19 June 2022|website=Hürriyet|archive-date=7 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107085608/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yerel-haberler/ankara/yerli-google-geliyoo-com-16318424|url-status=live}} In July 2013, the news aggregator of the company was activated.{{Cite web|url=http://haber.gazetevatan.com/turk-yapimi-arama-motoru-geliyoo-aktif/550678/43/Gundem|title=Türk yapımı arama motoru Geliyoo aktif!|date=3 July 2013|access-date=19 June 2022|website=Vatan|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195825/http://haber.gazetevatan.com/turk-yapimi-arama-motoru-geliyoo-aktif/550678/43/Gundem|url-status=dead}}
From 2015, press coverage of Geliyoo began to name Hakan Atabaş, rather than Savaş, as Arslan's co-founder. The test run of the updated search engine started in January 2017. A few days prior, Transportation, Maritime and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan had called for "a national search engine because [Turkey] currently depend[s] on foreign technologies", which caused the news about Geliyoo to go viral.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/opinion/ersu-ablak/google-as-a-turkish-national-search-engine-108694|title=Google as a Turkish national search engine|date=19 January 2017|access-date=19 June 2022|author=Ersu Ablak|website=Hürriyet Daily News|archive-date=21 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821223501/https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/opinion/ersu-ablak/google-as-a-turkish-national-search-engine-108694|url-status=live}} The owners of Geliyoo claimed that they expected 3 million users by 2018, which they said would be 7% of the market share. The company also announced that they were working on a browser, which was due to be released in the second quarter of 2018. {{As of|2022|09}}, Geliyoo's website displays a blank page.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geliyoo.com/|title=Anasayfa|access-date=26 June 2022|website=Geliyoo|archive-date=29 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329014232/https://www.geliyoo.com/|url-status=live}}
Services
The search engine, news aggregator and RSS service of the company were launched on 3 June 2013. Geliyoo claimed that the search engine used GeliyooBot/1.0 to analyze 7–10 TeraBytes of data per day. The RSS feed was reported to only include links which have a picture are shown, as the ones without a picture are "not interesting for the user". In 2016, the company claimed that their search engine did not perform its own indexing because they did not have sufficient computing resources.{{Cite web|url=https://haberler.geliyoo.com/arama-motoru/geliyoo-bunlari-ilk-kez-acikladi/182|title=Geliyoo Bunları ilk Kez Açıkladı!|date=20 October 2016|access-date=26 June 2022|website=Geliyoo|archive-date=16 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416225704/https://haberler.geliyoo.com/arama-motoru/geliyoo-bunlari-ilk-kez-acikladi/182|url-status=live}} The search engine of Geliyoo launched again on 17 January 2017 with a test run. The company spent around 10 million Turkish liras on development in ten years. According to an announcement on Geliyoo's website, a browser to support the search engine is in-development, but the full version has not been released.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geliyoobilisim.com/pf/geliyoo-browser/|title=Geliyoo Browser|access-date=21 June 2022|website=Geliyoo|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423084958/https://www.geliyoobilisim.com/pf/geliyoo-browser/|url-status=live}}
Criticism
When reviewing the search engine in October 2013, Ruhan Alpaydın writing for SoL said that the website gave the "look of a student project" and that it was "nowhere to being a search engine", as Geliyoo mostly showed few and irrelevant results.{{Cite web|url=https://haber.sol.org.tr/bilim-teknoloji/eyvah-milli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-haberi-81771|title=Eyvah! Milli arama motoru 'Geliyoo'!|date=30 October 2013|access-date=26 June 2022|author=Ruhan Alpaydın|website=SoL|archive-date=21 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721042226/http://haber.sol.org.tr/bilim-teknoloji/eyvah-milli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-haberi-81771|url-status=live}}
Geliyoo was criticized in the Turkish media in January 2017, only hours after the search engine was announced, when it was discovered that the results seen in the search engine were being retrieved from Google Custom Search using a pre-existing script sold for US$15 on the internet. This caused some commentators to question the claim made by the company to have spent over 10 million Turkish liras in ten years on development.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/bir-turkiye-hikayesi-10-yil-calistik-googlea-yerli-rakip-yaptik-dediler-altindan-bakin-ne-cikti-661817|title=Bir Türkiye hikayesi: '10 yıl çalıştık Google'a yerli rakip yaptık' dediler, altından bakın ne çıktı|date=18 January 2017|access-date=19 June 2022|website=Cumhuriyet|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201824/https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/bir-turkiye-hikayesi-10-yil-calistik-googlea-yerli-rakip-yaptik-dediler-altindan-bakin-ne-cikti-661817|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.yenisafak.com/teknoloji/yerli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-tepki-gordu-2598805|title=Yerli arama motoru 'Geliyoo' tepki gördü|date=18 January 2017|access-date=19 June 2022|website=Yeni Şafak|archive-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120153547/https://www.yenisafak.com/teknoloji/yerli-arama-motoru-geliyoo-tepki-gordu-2598805|url-status=live}} The media also revealed that the website theme and substructure design used on Geliyoo were sold on the internet for only US$59 in a form that took no more than an hour to install.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/teknoloji/bakanliktan-yerli-arama-motoru-aciklamasi-40339756|title=Bakanlıktan "yerli arama motoru" açıklaması|date=19 January 2017|access-date=19 June 2022|website=Hürriyet|archive-date=22 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222043536/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/teknoloji/bakanliktan-yerli-arama-motoru-aciklamasi-40339756|url-status=live}} Multiple doppelgänger sites were made to mock the company, such as "Gidiyoo" ({{translation|literal=yes|i=yes|"to go [away]"}}) and "Gelemiyoo" ({{translation|literal=yes|i=yes|"not being able to come"}}), which show results in the same way and cost only US$60 to make. Geliyoo responded to the critics by saying that the site in its current form was only being used to test their domain name and that the actual search engine was not yet available to the public.
In January 2017, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure{{efn|Known as the Ministry of Transport, Maritime and Communications at that time.}} denied that they had provided any financial or moral support for the company after several sources "made the perception that the search engine was supported by the ministry".{{Cite web|url=https://www.sabah.com.tr/teknokulis/haberler/2017/01/19/bakanliktan-beklenen-geliyoo-arama-motoru-aciklamasi|title=Bakanlıktan beklenen "Geliyoo" arama motoru açıklaması!|date=19 January 2017|access-date=19 June 2022|website=Sabah|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202311/https://www.sabah.com.tr/teknokulis/haberler/2017/01/19/bakanliktan-beklenen-geliyoo-arama-motoru-aciklamasi|url-status=live}} In an opinion piece published on 10 March 2017 in The New York Times, Busra Erkara said that the company "will automatically block websites and content that aren't fit for 'Turkish culture and familial values'", and argued that Geliyoo was a part of the "censorship and propaganda" of the Turkish Government.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/sunday/propaganda-in-istanbul.html|title=Propaganda in Istanbul|date=10 March 2017|access-date=19 June 2022|author=Busra Erkara|website=The New York Times|archive-date=19 June 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220619160023/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/sunday/propaganda-in-istanbul.html|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}
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