Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc. The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.
Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil. In fact, as of December 2009, 51.09% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 20.02% and United States with 17.28%.
Originally hosted in California, in August 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.
As of January 2010, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 70th in the world, the website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide.
The True Story Behind Orkut!
Name: Orkut Buyukkokten
Born: 6th Feb 1976 in Konya, Turkey
Current Residence: Mountain View, California
Orkut Buyukkokten lost his girlfriend in a train accident. But the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievemnt in itself!!.
He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his girlfriend through the web. Things went as planned. And he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years.
It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy and took over this application, This Software made a whopping 1 Billion dollar profit in its first year, which we today know as Orkut.
Some Cool Facts About This Guy:
- He gets $12 frm Google when every person registers to this website.
- He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
- He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
- He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
- He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
- He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
- He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
- He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
- He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
- He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
- He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 everytime you view ur friend's friend-list.
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