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Quietly, Orkut was launched on January 22, 2004 by Google. Orkut Büyükkökte n is a Turkish software engineer. While working at Google (permitted by its policy), he developed Orkut as an independent project. Indie Journal Xanga Layouts Myspace Layouts Dark Lee DarkLee Profile Some users (and potential ones) are uncomfortable with this. Some point to Google's other noteworthy product of 2004, which was the web-based email client Gmail. It allows the company to automatically scan text of users' private emails to show them targetted ads. Previously, while working for Affinity Engines, Orkut developed a similar system, called InCircle. It was intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed a lawsuit against Google. Their claim was Büyükkökte n and Google based Orkut on inCircle code. The allegations are based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in orkut which exist in InCircle. Space Profile Everyone Every1 Heavenly Profiles Originally, the orkut community was believed elite. This is due to membership being by invitation only. However, at the end of July, 2004, Orkut surpassed 1,000,000 members. At the end of September it passed 2,000,000. By April, 2006, Orkut's members were: 71.94% Brazil 11.33% United States 3.05% India 2.18% Iran 2.18% Pakistan. Profile Heaven CJB Myspace Layouts & Backgrounds EPinions Opinions The intended invitation method was e-mail between acquitances. Obtain an invitation to orkut via the web, with diligence, or eBay, like Gmail invites. Pioneer Report MDI Myspace Codes More Buddies Buddies Simple Freeware Orkut, as a social tool, is complex. This is due to various people frequently trying to add strangers to their pool of friends. Often, this simply increases the number indicating their friends next to their name in their profile. Many "add-me" communities exist, entirely for this purpose. A large number of cloned, fake, bogus, invisible and "orphaned" profiles exist.
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