Orkut: Google’s venture in Social Networking

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Thursday, January 22, 2004

Google decided to jump into the social networking bandwagon with the launching of Orkut. Social networking can have a big impact on search engine results as the user’s home pages on social networking sites such as Ryze & Friendster are closely connected to each other. Today blogs have similar impact on search engine rankings largely due to their strong inter-connections.
This conjures up possibilities…

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May 5, 2005: 1:31 am

Social Networking and IT employment Opportunities

Figured I would take the opportunity to share an interesting conversation as well as solicit the help of the community to find some candidates interested in working for a cool company……

May 6, 2004: 11:00 am

Orkut Dead ?
https://www.orkut.com dosent seem to exist on the dns map at all. Cant resolve any hostname within the orkut.com namespace from within the UK. Three different people on various ISP’s confirm that this is true for them as well.

Anyone else being able to login…

April 1, 2004: 9:05 am

Orkut goes banana’s on Desire
I have been on Orkut for a few weeks now, Nothing great. Dont really have the time to be putting into these Social Networking things - did think at one time that it might be a good idea to network with people and get to know a few people in allied inte…

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