Orkut's introduction came amid a mini boomlet of similar sites, which now number in the dozens, including Friendster, Tribe.net and MySpace. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

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, which still has a sizeable audience of 66 million, thanks to Brazil and India, is still far from dead, though it’s now losing out to Facebook in its home country of Brazil (comScore ...

10 years ago Orkut was born, a few years later, it was acquired by Google. Now, the social network has kicked the bucket and some people are already losing their minds.

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 ...

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 ...

If you remember Orkut, Google's first foray into social networking, good news: the site is still around. The bad news is that it's about to die. Orkut will go gentle into that good night on ...

Orkut Büyükkökten’s message echoed in the corridors of the Google office in 2004 when he was on the brink of giving the world something that would be a paradigm shift in the way it communicated.

Remember Orkut? Yeah, you're not alone if you said no. Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking and, while it never took off in the States, it did in some countries (in particular ...

Launched in 2004, Orkut had more than 30 million Brazilian users at its peak in 2011 — almost half the country's population with access to the Internet at the time, according to research firm Ibope.

Google’s social networking service, Orkut has opened it’s doors to the general public. Previously Orkut was an invite-only service. If you already have a Google Account you can now login to ...