Google Finally Shuts Down Orkut, Its First Social Network. ByEllen Huet, Former Staff. I write about technology and how it affects us. Jun 30, 2014, 12:35pm EDT Jun 30, 2014, 01:04pm EDT.

Google is shutting down Orkut, its first social network. Orkut is a social network Google launched in 2004, the same year as Facebook (FB). Needless to say, Orkut hasn't exactly kept up. The ...

Start saying your farewells to Orkut — if you’ve ever even heard of it, that is. Google is shutting down Orkut, the outdated social network the company launched 10 years ago. Starting today, … ...

If you remember Orkut, Google's first foray into social networking, good news: the site is still around. The bad news is that it's about to die. Orkut will go gentle into that good night on ...

In 2004, Orkut Büyükkökten and Githin Jose founded the social network Orkut as part of an independent project within Google. After a decade, it was shuttered with a community of more than 300 ...

Google's first foray into social networking, Orkut, will go kaput at the end of September. Google Inc. is preparing to shutter 10-year-old Orkut, its early social networking service that found ...

Orkut, the social networking service Google launched back in 2004, miraculously survived multiple rounds of spring cleaning despite the fact that it was never a huge hit outside of Brazil, ...

Orkut was the first social networking website — owned and operated by Google — which was launched in 2004 and closed down in 2014, leaving its users heartbroken.

Google Orkut, a social network that has had virtually no impact outside of Brazil and India in years, is shutting down a decade after its launch. The network, which has been overtaken in every ...

Brazil is still hanging on in the World Cup tournament that the country is hosting, but a site that's been popular among Brazilians, Orkut, is bowing out of the social-network competition. The ...

Google’s Orkut is kind of the awkward step-child of the social media world. Yes, it’s big in Brazil and some other countries, but for the most part, it has always played a distant third fiddle ...

Google’s Orkut social networking site has been beset with bugs lately, leading the company to apologize for spotty service. Orkut is an online community intended to make participants’ social ...