hakia was an Internet search engine. Launched in March 2004 and based in

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, hakia attempted to pioneer a

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engine in contrast to keyword search engines that were established at that time. The search engine ceased operations in 2014. Since 2015 the domain has been owned by

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. Hakia was founded by Rıza Can Berkan and

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The company invented QDEXing technology, an infrastructure to indexing that uses "SemanticRank" algorithm, using ontological semantics, fuzzy logic, computational linguistics, and mathematics. In 2008, hakia added several sub-categories for search engine hits, such as "credible sites" for information by trusted websites, "news", "images" and "meet others", a feature that let users find forums and groups for related search items.

* Tümer, Duygu, Mohammad Ahmed Shah, and Yiltan Bitirim. "An empirical evaluation on semantic search performance of keyword-based and semantic search engines: Google, yahoo, msn and hakia." In Internet Monitoring and Protection, 2009. ICIMP'09. Fourth International Conference on, pp. 51–55. IEEE, 2009. * Berkan, Riza C., and Victor Raskin. "System and method for natural language processing and using ontological searches." U.S. Patent 7,739,104, issued June 15, 2010. * Jordan, Jay. "Climbing out of the box and into the cloud: Building web-scale for libraries."

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51, no. 1 (2010): 3-17. * Pollock, Jeffrey T. Semantic web for dummies.

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, 2009. * MacManus, R.
Hakia takes on Google

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, 23 Mar 2008." (2008).

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