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I thought Orkut (by google) did amazingly well in some parts of the world? http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/02/social-networks-popularity.gif http://www.la
by tensor 16y ago
I thought Orkut (by google) did amazingly well in some parts of the world?
http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/02/social-networks-popularity.gif http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/02/social-networks-popu...
- justanotheratom 16y agoGoogle did not create Orkut, it was acquired.
- nl 16y agoNo, Google created Orkut. In 2003, Google offered to purchase the social network Friendster, but the offer was declined by that company. Google then internally commissioned Orkut Büyükkökten to work on a competing independent project. The result was Orkut. The product launched on January 24, 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#History_of_orkut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#History_of_orkut (If it isn't clear from that quote, Orkut Büyükkökten was a Google employee)
- code_duck 16y agoThey named it after an individual? How odd. It's like Facebook being called Zuckbook.
- nl 16y agoIt did for a while, but has been mostly subsumed by Facebook in India, and increasingly in Brazil. Edit: see, for example: http://cybergyaan.blogspot.com/2010/05/orkut-vs-facebook.html http://cybergyaan.blogspot.com/2010/05/orkut-vs-facebook.htm...