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  • Remember Orkut? It's Got #hashtags, if you still care

    Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator

    Updated: Oct 26, 2024
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    Do you remember Orkut? Almost everyone around me was hooked to it until Facebook came and ate its lunch. But Google's still betting on the service and adding new features to the service. Google's just enabled #hashtags feature in Orkut. When you post any content, you can create hashtags automatically by adding a hash in front of the word that you wish to tag. For example, if you write - I just joined #crazyengineers (remember, no spaces) then the service will automatically highlight #crazyengineers and will link it to a search page where other hashtags or relevant results will be displayed.

    Check this official Google Blog update: #-Link-Snipped-#

    By the way, how many of you are still active on Orkut?
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  • K!r@nS!ngu

    Member • Feb 6, 2012

    I forgot the URL of orkut ! can someone post it here ???😛
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  • Mr.Don

    Member • Feb 7, 2012

    Interesting, found out many CE communities created by various college students in Orkut!

    #-Link-Snipped-#
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  • Sahithi Pallavi

    Member • Feb 7, 2012

    What is orkut? I've almost forgot about it.

    @Mr.Don - Nice search 👍
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  • Ankita Katdare

    Administrator • Feb 7, 2012

    Mr.Don
    Interesting, found out many CE communities created by various college students in Orkut!

    #-Link-Snipped-#
    Thats a HUGE list! 😲

    one of my friends said she missed the 'testimonials' on Orkut.

    PS: No one cares what orkut does, let alone if it even exists or not.
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  • Anoop Kumar

    Member • Feb 7, 2012

    Openness , games and apps on facebook killed orkut.Google lately allowed games and apps.
    No friends activity was going on facebook.
    One day one of my friend asked me to be team of game Mafia war and neighbor of a game Firmville , no matter you play or not.
    This was a significant way that you can be on social network and play games meanwhile.

    I don't know why still Google still improving Orkut!!!
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  • nigelb

    Member • Feb 10, 2012

    Its fun to see Google keeping Orkut alive when they themselves have a competing product in G+.
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  • circularsquare

    Member • Feb 11, 2012

    nigelb
    Its fun to see Google keeping Orkut alive when they themselves have a competing product in G+.
    This is true of many Google products. They sometimes acquire a competing product but still keep both products operational instead of merging them.
    This has happened with youtube and google video as well. For a long time google video hosted its own videos even though youtube was under the google household.
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Feb 11, 2012

    Most of the Google products have been failures.
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  • circularsquare

    Member • Feb 11, 2012

    The_Big_K
    Most of the Google products have been failures.

    Definitely not this one - <a href="https://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Les Paul's 96th Birthday</a>
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Feb 11, 2012

    circularsquare
    Definitely not this one - <a href="https://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Les Paul's 96th Birthday</a>
    That's not a product. It's a doodle. Google Buzz was a classic failure.
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  • Reya

    Member • Feb 11, 2012

    Ah! I have an account in orkut😲 I don't think that orkut can compete with Facebook.
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  • Anoop Kumar

    Member • Feb 11, 2012

    The_Big_K
    Most of the Google products have been failures.
    They are monster in making products... if most of them will succeed Google will be synonym of internet and software.
    take a look a search engine: who use other search engine other than google.com. Microsoft tried on bing a lot but nothing happens.
    Gmail is fastest growing email in personal users.
    Android already beats iOS.
    Adsense and adwords changed the way of internet ads.
    Cloud is coming.

    At least some space should be there on internet other than google. 😀
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  • circularsquare

    Member • Feb 11, 2012

    Something to think over -
    Initially when google started out till many years it didn't create it's own content. It only linked to other people's content.
    For example google news never provided it's own news. It has always linked to news agency websites and just collated the content at one place according to relevance.
    Google search always is about other websites.

    Same with youtube , the videos are posted by someone else.
    In contrast yahoo has always been content provider what with games and stuff.

    Is this proposition still valid that 'Google doesn't produce own content as such only brings it together in one place' ?

    By content I mean stuff such as knowledge , games, entertainment, news articles , etc.

    I won't include videos which explain google features as content per se. Those are simply information.
    I think closest Google gets to being part of world culture is when it does the doodles.
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  • vinci

    Member • Feb 13, 2012

    google is still strongly competing Apple and facebook in terms of products and softwares
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  • sowjitha

    Member • Feb 13, 2012

    Yup I have a orkut account in my past but now I don't know.I just forgot my id and password
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  • Dancer_Engineer

    Member • Feb 13, 2012

    sowjitha
    Yup I have a orkut account in my past but now I don't know.I just forgot my id and password
    Ohh, that's sad. Never mind! 😉
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