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Google kills Orkut to focus on YouTube, Blogger and Google+

30
Jun
2014

Googles long suggested that Orkut, its other social network, was living on borrowed time, but today its finally confirmed that the end is coming. The search giant said today that itll shut down the service on September 30th in order to shift its focus to bigger projects like YouTube, Blogger and Google+. Although users in the US never really took to it, Orkut remained popular in Brazil and India for the better part of a decade (its been maintained by Google Brazil since 2008).

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