Turkey’s Search Engine Yaani Has Been Downloaded 7 Million Within a Year
November 09 2018 - 7:13AM
Business Wire
Launched almost a year ago, Turkey’s search engine, Yaani has
been downloaded 7 million times, with around 2 million searches
conducted daily on average.
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Yaani celebrates its first year with 7
million downloads and 2 million daily searches. (Photo: Business
Wire)
The search engine Yaani developed by Turkcell (NYSE:TKC)
(BIST:TCELL) has added Turkey to the list of countries with their
own search engines. Yaani engages the unique syntax of the Turkish
language and learns from the search patterns of users.
Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioglu stated that Yaani is
celebrating its first year and Turkey loves Yaani conducting 2
million searches everyday.
Terzioglu continued: “We will be able to stand by our increasing
number of customers with our new feature that fosters online
shopping and provides our subscribers a platform where they can
reach the best fit products at the optimum price. In near future,
Turkcell’s ‘Fast Log-in’ feature will be integrated which will
commence an easier, quicker and more secure online shopping era
with Yaani. ‘Fast Log-in’ provides easier access as passwords or
usernames are not required, thus users can log in only using their
phone numbers.”
Terzioglu also expressed their plans to widen Yaani’s borders to
the global market.
Turkcell digital services reached 130 million downloads with the
revenue acceleration in the third quarter of 2018, according to the
Q3 report announced. The further objective is to increase this to 1
billion within three years.
Turkcell, is the biggest data center investor in Turkey. The
strength of the infrastructure of Turkcell has led the company to
inaugurate its own search engine by becoming a part of the several
companies in the world.
The company continues to grow both within the national and
global market while making progress in digital technology
export.
Increasing demand for Turkcell’s digital services
Turkcell's business model developed over the past 3.5 years has
successfully weathered the tough macro-environment of the third
quarter of 2018. The digital services, which aim to create value
for each one of 1440 minutes each day, was downloaded nearly 130
million times. The data usage of 4.5G users reached 7GB per month
on average in the third quarter. Strong operational performance
coupled with prudent financial risk management led to continued
growth in revenues and EBITDA, despite strong macro headwinds. The
revenues rose 26.1% to TRY5.8 billion with EBITDA reaching TRY2.4
billion on 46.6% year-on-year growth in the third quarter.
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Ali Karakaya, +90 532 210 00 23Turkcell Corporate
Communicationsali.karakaya@turkcell.com.trorBurak Mergen, +90 532
210 60 20Turkcell Corporate
Communicationsburak.mergen@turkcell.com.tr
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