Friday, 23. January 2004

Topic: - on January 23, 2004 at 1:04:00 PM CET

Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service

Google has quietly released a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google software engineer who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google.

All employees at Google are allowed to spend twenty percent of their time working on personal interests, a policy Google has to encourage creativity. Buyukkokten had an interest in social networking and so developed his service, Google says. Now the company has decided to open it to the public.

¬> searchenginewatch.com

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