Google’s new social networking site is called Orkut. There is a lot of talk that Google is going to do all it can to overtake Facebook in the social networking arena since they lost the recent bid to purchase part of Facebook to Microsoft. Out of curiosity I made an Orkut account and started tooling around. It is very similar to Facebook but I noticed something very strange. When I did a search for individuals living in Greensboro I was amazed at how many people that appeared to be of the Indian descent (Did I just break a pc rule by saying Indian?) Of the 15 or so pages that came up under this Greensboro search only 15 – 20 people appeared to be American. Google is either doing a test with fake info or a certain population got a heads up on Orkut. Check it out… its interesting to say the least.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Google Social Networking Platform- Orkut
Google’s new social networking site is called Orkut. There is a lot of talk that Google is going to do all it can to overtake Facebook in the social networking arena since they lost the recent bid to purchase part of Facebook to Microsoft. Out of curiosity I made an Orkut account and started tooling around. It is very similar to Facebook but I noticed something very strange. When I did a search for individuals living in Greensboro I was amazed at how many people that appeared to be of the Indian descent (Did I just break a pc rule by saying Indian?) Of the 15 or so pages that came up under this Greensboro search only 15 – 20 people appeared to be American. Google is either doing a test with fake info or a certain population got a heads up on Orkut. Check it out… its interesting to say the least.
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Wrong. Orkut has been around for awhile. Thus its 26 million users, only 500k of which are Americans. Instead, what Google is rolling out today are the first OpenSocial APIs.
Thats an interesting fact that I did not know.
Unfortunately for you, I had just posted about the subject and discovered Orkut, myself.
Welcome to Blogsboro.
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