From sending scraps on Orkut to going viral on Instagram Reels India's social media journey is nothing short of a digital ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...