In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media.

In 2004, fresh off a failed attempt to buy hotshot-of-the-day Friendster, Google launched Orkut. The fledgling site was Google's first foray into a social network in the days before anyone knew ...

Google's Orkut has been steadily rising on the Alexa charts, and for the first time today overtook MySpace in total page views. Since all of the other Ok, Maybe Not | TechCrunch ...

Orkut's success in Brazil seems largely to be a fluke. The site hasn't made any special appeal to Brazilians, and only began to offer a Portuguese-language option in April of 2005, ...

Google's Orkut, a social networking service popular in Brazil and India, has started warning Internet Explorer 6 users that the browser will no longer be supported.When you log into Orkut with IE6 ...

While Orkut is much smaller than Facebook worldwide, it does dominate in at least two large countries: Brazil and India. But that soon may change. India looks like it is about to fall to Facebook.

In this blog, I mentioned Orkut in eight of my blog entries. When I first started with Orkut, I was hooked. But very soon after, I stopped logging in each day. Now I login once per week, just to ...

Facebook appears to have overtaken Google's Orkut in India. At the same time, Google has rolled out new changes to beef up Orkut as it continues to work on a broader social-networking service. In ...

Why Brazil Loves Orkut! Danny Sullivan made a post today at Search Engine Watch quoting a USA Today piece on the alarming amount of Al-Qaeda "fan" groups ...

Think twice before you let loose your thoughts on Orkut. The Google-run community site, which has become a global platform for sharing personal information, ideas and sentiments and already has ...

With the success of Google+, the company must eventually decide what to do with Buzz and Orkut--either shut them down and port their users, or risk creating a fragmented social ecosystem.

The search giant will integrate the Orkut online social network into its search services, CEO Eric Schmidt tells a PC Forum crowd. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...