Google is shutting down Orkut, its first social network. Orkut is a social network Google launched in 2004, the same year as Facebook (FB). Needless to say, Orkut hasn't exactly kept up. The ...

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 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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“Orkut buit his eponymous service entirely on his own. It was a prototype to gather data, to try things out, to experiment. He wrote the code, designed the user interface, ...

Orkut was launched in 2004 as a rival to Friendster. It is owned and operated by Google. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.