Orkut
Sign in to saveOrkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.
Key facts
- Website.logo
- Logo ORKUT.svg
- Website.logo_size
- 150px
- Website.company_type
- Private
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.founder
- Orkut Büyükkökten
- Website.industry
- Internet
- Website.owner
- Website.successor
- Google+
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.advertising
- AdSense
- Website.website_type
- Social networking service
- Website.registration
- Required
- Website.language
- Multilingual (45)
- Website.screenshot
- Orkut-sign.png
- Website.caption
- Orkut's login screen
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
26 sectionsContents
- Features
- History
- Origins
- Redesigns
- First redesign
- Second redesign: New Orkut
- Messages Black Hole
- Controversy
- Fake profiles
- Hate groups
- State censorship
- In Iran
- In the United Arab Emirates
- In Saudi Arabia
- Security
- MW.Orc worm
- Session management and authentication
- W32/KutWormer
- Legal issues
- India
- Brazil
- Shutdown
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.
Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008. In that year, Google announced Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.