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Google published today that it is shutting down its first social network, Orkut, on September 30.

Orkut, launched in 2004 and named after Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten, who made it, was extremely well known in Brazil, where for quite a long time it was the leading social network. Facebook at last surpassed it the country in January 2012.

Orkut was widely utilized within India, however never picked up footing in the U.S. also with the production of Google+ three years back, the end of Orkut was just a matter of time.

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