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Google's Orkut Is Twice as Popular as Facebook or MySpace Amongst Software Developers in India: SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Orkut, the social networking site from Google is used by twice as many software developers in India than either MySpace or Facebook according to an Evans Data survey of over 300 software developers in India. Indian developers showed much more interest in social networking sites in...; Tags: developer, Evans Data Corp., Facebook, Google Inc., India, MARKETING, MySpace, Orkut.com, software, survey; Research articles 2008-07-08
Google hands over data on suspected pedophiles to Brazil: BRASILIA AFP — Google on Wednesday handed over data stored by suspected pedophiles on its Orkut social networking site to Brazilian authorities, ceding to pressure to lift its confidentiality duty to its users, officials said. The US Internet giant delivered 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission looking into...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Brazilian, Google Inc., MARKETING, Orkut.com; Research articles 2008-04-23
Brazil Senate orders Google to identify website pedophiles: BRASILIA AFP — A Brazilian Senate panel ordered Google on Wednesday to give it access to 3,261 profiles containing suspected pedophile material on a highly popular social-networking website. Federal authorities have complained that Internet giant Google refuses to identify users who post criminal material on the social-networking website Orkut....; Tags: Brazilian, Google Inc., MARKETING, Orkut.com, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2008-04-09
Why Facebook's COO Hire Yanks Google's Chain: Here's a noteworthy move: Sheryl Sandberg, who has been a star at Google since 2001, is jumping ship to be Facebook's chief operating officer. Kara Swisher broke the news over at BoomTown and the blogs are buzzing with speculation. Google and Facebook are on a collision course:...; Tags: Marketing, Online Communications, Social Networking, Orkut.com, Facebook, Google Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Kevin Kelleher; Blog posts 2008-03-05
Osama bin Laden fan clubs, jihad recruiters build online communities: Al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by Google, to rally support for Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links promoting terrorism and recruit non-Arabic-speaking Westerners, according to terrorism experts and a survey of the sites. Most jihadist message boards on traditional websites are...; Tags: al-Qaeda, Government, MARKETING, Orkut.com, terrorism; Research articles 2006-03-09

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Google debuts social networking site.(Business): Google launched its new social networking site, www.orkut.com, that apparently allows people to communicate with friends and family, according to the Boston Globe. The company said it wants to "increase the overall satisfaction of social life." In truth, the company started the site since its proposed...; Tags: Boston Globe, Google Inc., MARKETING, network; Research articles 2004-01-01
Google's Top 10 Products: Erick Schonfeld submits: Can you name Google’s GOOG top ten products? If you look at how Quantcast ranks Google’s subdomains, you can get a sense of which Google products are the most popular, since they each have their own subdomain. Google’s main search engine tops the list with...; Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc.; External links 2008-12-31
Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You: There's no two ways about it: if you use a lot of Google services, then Google knows a lot about you . Google has received a solid amount of criticism because of this, and they've decided to alleviate the issue by launching Privacy...; Tags: Google Inc.; News items 2009-11-05
Google Dashboard puts all of Google's services in one place: Google today released a new web page that allows users to better see how much of their data are being stored by the Internet search giant. Google Dashboard lists all of Google's services that a user is subscribed to, in one location. In a Blogpost on the subject, a Google...; Tags: Google Inc., Dashboard; News items 2009-11-05
Google Launches OpenSocial to Spread Social Applications Across the Web: Support for Common Set of APIs Includes Bebo, iLike, MySpace, orkut, and Salesforce.com; Tags: Google Inc., Web; Research articles 2007-11-02
Google Kicks Off Its Facebook Ground War: Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Google Puts All of Your Personal Info in One Place: Google has launched what it calls the Google Dashboard, which is a central place Google users can go to find their data for different Google products they use when signed into a Google account. It also provides direct links to control your personal settings."Over the past 11 years, Google has...; Tags: Google Inc., Dashboard; News items 2009-11-05