Sci-fi Novel - The Love Algorithm - Part 46
Part 1: Our Sweet Home
Part 2: Love In 12 Minutes
Part 3: Machiavellian Berkan's Concerns
Part 4: Bonanza and His Friends
Part 5: Long-lasted Love
Part 6: Pre-design Battle
Part 7: My Dear Father
Part 8: Video Speech of A Public Enemy
Part 9: A Job Interview
Part 10: The Second Great Attack
Part 11: Big Hopes
Part 12: An Unexpected Disaster
Part 13: Sediment of the Days
Part 14: The Goddess Of Matchmaking, Gülizar
Part 15: Saturday Night Fever
Part 16: Red Alert
Part 17: Writing the Codes of Love
Part 18: Bombastic Folk Singer Ayhan
Part 19: The Drama Of An Ordinary Toy Soldier
Part 20: Phone Call In The Morning
Part 21: The Land of Angry Invoices
Part 22: Last Cliff Before The Bridge
Part 23: The Questionnaire
Part 24: The Cursed Prophet Murphy
Part 25: When Love Hits The Door
Part 26: Among Data Stacks
Part 27: Carefree Souls Gallery
Part 28: Lord Of The Conversation Council
Part 29: The Sound Of Silence
Part 30: The Prophecies Of Bonanza
Part 31: Signs of Love
Part 32: The Last Nail That Crashed Into The Coffin
Part 33: Dance With Death
Part 34: Lack Of Money
Part 35: The Lover Lost In The Bend
Part 36: Big Expectations
Part 37: Pride and Anger
Part 38: A Tough Debate
Part 39: A Dark Season
Part 40: My Brother Bonanza
Part 41: Ghosts Of The Past
Part 42: Preparation for Gulizar's Attack
Part 43: Phone Call In The Middle of Nowhere
Part 44: Aunt Gülizar's Crazy Hostel
Part 45: My Friend's Lover
Part 46: Neslihan, Nurgül ve Gülizar
After the freezing days passed, we went on an Anatolian tour with Deniz with an old Ford Fiesta, which we rented. We have determined our route as Izmit, Bursa, Balıkesir, Manisa, Izmir, Aydın, Denizli, Antalya, Adana, and Hatay. If we could get the yield from work on the first route, we were planning to do another tour through Konya and Ankara to the Black Sea, from there to the East and Southeast. We were renting the cheapest room we could find on Airbnb for less expense and staying in the same room. The mini-fliers we crammed into the trunk of the car and the back seat seemed to be enough for the end of the tour. After having breakfast together in the morning, we set out on two separate routes towards the busiest points of the city, walking for miles around spreading flake-sized fliers in our backpacks, meeting in the evening where we were staying and looking at the latest statistics of Gulizar. While the mini ad work didn't seem to work as well as in Istanbul, we were both hopeful that the user statistics would start moving upwards again. Deniz hoped the word-of-mouth marketing mechanism would work better in small provinces.
On Aydın foot of our tour, I came across an image that horrified me as I strolled through the channels of the television to find a basketball game in the evening. I picked up my tired legs, which I stretched out towards the TV, in a flurry and stood up. Deniz looked at me first and then on the television. In the televised ad, a white-haired professor was heralding his young assistants by saying, "Evreka, I've found the formula for love." “I want that formula, I'm going to make young people happy,” said a woman in a bank headmistress disguise who entered the lab at the time. The white-haired professor gave the paper to the woman who came to the lab that the formula of love was written, saying, "Neslihan is the best to do that." The woman, who we learned the name Neslihan, threw the formula inside her pocket computer like a magician. Neslihan became an application icon on the computer in a cartoon character consisting only of the head part. And the external voice said, the love you seek is written on your face, be a member, let Neslihan find your soul mate.
"My son, what a freaky ad this is," Deniz said, sharing my amazement.
"I don't know if I feel would be sorry for the idea I found is touted to society with such a terrible ad, our competitor to enter the market with a tv ad," I said.
We immediately started to download the Neslihan application to our mobile computers. After a brief review, Deniz said: "They tried to present an old matchmaking app as if it was new."
”That's not the application developed by Demirkol Holding at the time, " I said.
”Yeah, I think the matching apps had become popular at the market," Deniz said.
"Although we don't benefit, it looks like the country's love problem will be solved thanks to us, " I said.
"Maybe the ad that was made on TV would benefit us as well," Deniz said.
A few minutes later we've seen the ad for the other app, claiming to have found the formula for love. The ad began with a beautiful image of sky, where stars shimmer like colored balls. A celestial body with green and red lights was slowly beginning to approach the earth. In the darkness of night, the celestial body, vaguely chosen, descends into a vast plain in the countryside, and the object which is now understood to be a space capsule, lower its gate which becomes a ramp. The four-wheeled robot, which descended from the space capsule using the ramp, began digging the ground and was drilling a hole in the fiber cable passing underground, sending a beam of light into it.
In the next scene, a young engineer working in a flashy office gets excited about something he sees on the computer and calls the senior engineer working at the side table.
The veteran engineer, who saw the software codes on the screen, admiringly said, “it's unbelievable, it's perfect.”
The young engineer said: “who could have sent this to us?”
“I don't know who sent it, but I can understand why they sent it to us,” the senior engineer replied.
The young engineer asked: “Why?"
"Because we are committed to our work with love."
In the next scene, an adorable aunt in her 60s was looking at pictures of happy couples on the big screen opposite. Then she turned to the senior engineer and said, "Your Aunt Nurgül, the matchmaker, has a couple of words for you. Check out the app that makes these matches. Everybody deserves to be happy, baby".
While the logo of Nurgül application appeared on the screen, the external voice was saying ”download Nurgül to your mobile computer immediately, find the love you are looking for and be happy."
“This ad wasn't bad,” Deniz said.
“How are we going to deal with these guys?” I asked, in a frustrated tone.
“These ads will grow the market by increasing the awareness of the virtual matchmaking business. We don't know if their algorithm is as good-quality as ours. Let's keep moving forward on the course we set,” Deniz said.
"We have stepped up the virtual matchmaking business in Turkey, I expect a happier and firmer generation, " I said with a smile.
"It is an important contribution," Deniz replied.
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