Google, Orkut closing, ten years after the release of the social network. From Monday, it is not possible to create an account, and at the end of september the site permanently black, so made the internetgigant known.
In a blog post writes Google employee Paulo Golgher Monday that services like YouTube, Blogger and Google+, the role of Orkut in the course of the years, have taken over. “We have decided to say good-bye at Orkut, as these communities grow faster”, according to Golgher.
Orkut closes 30 september final the doors. Until that time, can no more create a new account on the website, writes Golgher further. With Google Takeout will allow existing users to the disappearance of the site profile information, messages, and export photos.
Google let you know after september 30, a archive to present in which all the messages on public Orkut community’s still to consult. Who are the messages do not want to see in that archive, Orkut permanently from the Google account to delete, it says in the blog post.
With the closing of Orkut comes to an end the longest-running social network of Google, that on 24 January 2004 saw the light of day. It happened when MySpace was still in its infancy, and Friendster and CU2 yet actually been used. Facebook and Myspace did not exist as yet.
Access to Orkut was at first limited: to gain access had a user need an invitation. It is a tactic that Google later more often would apply, with varying degrees of success. In the case of Orkut was that success is limited: especially in Brazil hit the service really.
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