Though every kid is equally important to a mother, but that doesn't seem to be the same with Orkut. Google+ has just turned 3 and Google on Monday said it plans to shut down its 10-year-old Orkut social network at the end of September. Orkut, Google's first social networking site, will cease to exist after September, with the Internet giant deciding to shut down the service.
Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is very popular in India and Brazil, on September 30. The service, however, did not do so well in other parts of the world and lost sheen to rivals like Facebook.Orkut, which popularised posts or "scraps" between friends, did not disclose the number of users on the website.
However, according to its website about 50.6 per cent of its users were from Brazil. Another 20.44 per cent came from India, while the US and Pakistan accounted for 17.78 per cent and 0.86 per cent, respectively.
"Over the past decade, Youtube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell," Google said in a post on the Orkut blog.
Google plans to shut down Orkut on Sept. 30 and maintain profile data, community posts, and photos until September 2016. Golgher suggests Orkut users might want to export their data using Google Takeout, a service Google provides to ensure data portability.
The orkut users are still able to access the social networking site but new users can't make a new account.
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Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is very popular in India and Brazil, on September 30. The service, however, did not do so well in other parts of the world and lost sheen to rivals like Facebook.Orkut, which popularised posts or "scraps" between friends, did not disclose the number of users on the website.
However, according to its website about 50.6 per cent of its users were from Brazil. Another 20.44 per cent came from India, while the US and Pakistan accounted for 17.78 per cent and 0.86 per cent, respectively.
"Over the past decade, Youtube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell," Google said in a post on the Orkut blog.
Google plans to shut down Orkut on Sept. 30 and maintain profile data, community posts, and photos until September 2016. Golgher suggests Orkut users might want to export their data using Google Takeout, a service Google provides to ensure data portability.
The orkut users are still able to access the social networking site but new users can't make a new account.
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