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Google to shut down social networking service Orkut in September

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2014

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut, which was launched ten years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Webs most popular businesses. Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is widely used in Brazil and India but hasnt caught on more broadly, on Sept. 30, to focus on its other social networking initiatives. The company declined to say how many users Orkut has. Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world.

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