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Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008.
- January 24, 2004; 19 years ago
- Multilingual (45)
- Required
orkut. Hi there, I’m Orkut. Seventeen years ago I started a little social network while I was an engineer at Google. In just a few years, that social network - orkut.com - grew to a community of over 300 million people.
Orkut was officially shut down on September 30, 2014, but you can view public community discussions in the Community Archive. Go to the Community Archive. Other things you can do: Delete your posts from the Community Archive. Report something in the Community Archive. It is no longer possible to save items associated with your Orkut profile.
Google will shut Orkut down at the end of September, the company said Monday in a blog post. Users can export their profiles and other information using Google Takeout until then.
Jun 30, 2014 · On Monday, Google announced the end of its first foray into social networking, Orkut. September 30, 2014 will be the 10-year-old network’s final day. ReadWrite has been covering underdog...
Jun 30, 2014 · Google announced today that its decade-old social network Orkut would be shut down. The long-suffering social network had withstood the fact that its user base was primarily in Brazil at a time...
Sep 30, 2014 · It’s Time To Say Goodbye To Orkut, Google’s First Social Network. Though Orkut proved popular in Brazil and India, it failed to gain traction in the rest of the world. BY Alice Truong.
