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.
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)