The Story.... A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident.... but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!. He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web.. Things went as planned... n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!! It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy n took over this application, This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT . The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN . Yes its named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is expected to b the richest person by 2009. ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!! Some other Cool Facts about this guy: * He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website. * He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend. * He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain. * He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you. * He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut. * He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list. * He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan. * He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan. * He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut. * He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph. * He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list. "Moral of the story"? LOSE U R GIRLFRIEND AND MAKE BILLIONS !!!!
this is all crap......if this was true,Mr. ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN would have surpassed Bill Gates by now..... just one example: I have uploades 461 photos in my orkut album. And you can upload 10k photos I have 395 people in my friendlist. and many more things to clear.....from these stats only,I have made Mr.Orkut would have got atleast $100,000 from my profile only....what about the other millions of profiles existing
lmao of course it's not true.... with those rates that the user is saying google pays him then they'll go bankrupt in a month..xD And think about it, what is google getting back when someone uploads a photograph and they pay that guy $200? They're making no profit out of it.
Explain to me the difference between these two, unless Google tracks me personally and pays him based on what I do this does not make any sense to me.
lol these facts are too old.Way back in 2006.here's the link http://vin2win.blogspot.com/2006/06/orkut-buyukkokten.html Besides Google now doesn't pay him for sign-ups and shit.They now officially own orkut.
That story is made up. It is one of those extremely annoying stories with an even more annoying formatting that the stupid teenage kids help spread through chain letters. Orkut was created by a google employee Orkut Büyükkökten using google servers.
its a all crap! there are many such rumour hype stories around orkut going on ... the calculations itself shows if it was true he would have surpassed bill gates long back ... In fact orkut isn't even a good source of income for google yet ...