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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by tensor on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:13PM (#2295967)
I thought Orkut (by google) did amazingly well in some parts of the world?

http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/02/social-networks-popu...

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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by nl on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:31PM (#2296023)
It did for a while, but has been mostly subsumed by Facebook in India, and increasingly in Brazil.

Edit: see, for example: http://cybergyaan.blogspot.com/2010/05/orkut-vs-facebook.htm...

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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by justanotheratom on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:16PM (#2295981)
Google did not create Orkut, it was acquired.
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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by nl on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:30PM (#2296019)
No, Google created Orkut.

In 2003, Google offered to purchase the social network Friendster, but the offer was declined by that company. Google then internally commissioned Orkut Büyükkökten to work on a competing independent project. The result was Orkut. The product launched on January 24, 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#History_of_orkut

(If it isn't clear from that quote, Orkut Büyükkökten was a Google employee)

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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by code_duck on Friday March 11, 2011 @05:27PM (#2315172)
They named it after an individual? How odd. It's like Facebook being called Zuckbook.
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