Anyone here ever heard of a website called "orkut.com"???

Up2Late

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Wed Aug-22-07 04:37 PM
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Anyone here ever heard of a website called "orkut.com"???

According to Alexa (a website that tracks and ranks website traffic) it's the #8 site in the WORLD and is even ahead of Wikipedia (which is #9) and "Facebook" (ranked #10!)

Here's the Global 500 list: <http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none>

I'd never even heard of it and it's still only in Beta testing.

Orkut -- Social networking and discussion site operated by Google.
www.orkut.com

I just filled in my profile and I have to say, it seems like a difficult to use "MySpace" (#6, btw), but if you already have a Google account, you don't even have to make a new one.

Anyone else not know about this site?

How is this site (operated by Google) "flying under the radar?":shrug:

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toddaa

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Wed Aug-22-07 04:45 PM
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1. It's very popular outside the U.S.

Believe it or not, there are people on the Internet who are not Americans.

All being monitored by the NSA.

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Up2Late

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Wed Aug-22-07 06:05 PM
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4. Yup, looks like it's most of it's traffic is from Brazil, check this out.

Orkut.com users come from these countries:

Brazil.........71.2%
India..........13.1%
United States...3.2%
Pakistan........2.0%
Paraguay........1.9%
United Kingdom..0.8%
(more at link)

Orkut.com traffic rank in other countries:
Brazil..........1
Paraguay........1
India...........2
Pakistan........2
United States..32

I made a traffic comparison between MySpace, Orkut, Facebook, Hi5, and Friendster at the link below:

<http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.orkut.com&site1=www.myspace.com&site2=www.facebook.com&site3=www.hi5.com&site4=www.friendster.com&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610&range=1y&size=Medium&url=http://www.orkut.com>

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MADem

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Wed Aug-22-07 04:48 PM
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2. Check out the LANGUAGES--maybe this takes off in Russia or China or Indonesia??

If you're logged in to Google, you're logged in to this site...a whole shitload of people have those stupid gmail accounts....

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Up2Late

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Wed Aug-22-07 05:48 PM
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3. Humm, there's another big "social networking site" called Hi5 that ranked #11...

Edited on Wed Aug-22-07 05:48 PM by Up2Late

...which is only one spot behind Facebook, and the press release says it's based in San Francisco, California, but I think the only time I'd ever heard of it was when I looked at the Alexa list.

I don't get how these sites are this popular with almost no "buzz." :shrug:

<http://www.hi5.com/>

<http://www.hi5networks.com/press.html>

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Madspirit

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Wed Aug-22-07 06:32 PM
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5. I Love My Gmail Account but hey, thanks for your opinion...n/t

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MADem

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Thu Aug-23-07 01:15 PM
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7. All I'm saying is, you got one of those gmail accounts, you got an account on this site.

You read your mail, you're signed in to this social networking outfit, too.

Don't shoot the messenger.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Wed Aug-22-07 06:37 PM
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6. I love Gmail

Nothing stupid about it.

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MADem

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Thu Aug-23-07 01:16 PM
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8. I dislike Google. I think they're very situational while trying to tout a claim of superiority.

Any outfit that will compromise consumer privacy to a government for profit isn't so "smart" to me.

YMMV, and probably does.

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