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Truth behind ORKUT!

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by deluxdon, Apr 11, 2008.

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    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 abt 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.

    Got above information through email from one of my friend so think to share it with you.

    DON.
     
    deluxdon, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  2. gauravgrt

    gauravgrt Peon

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    Interesting info :rolleyes:, had never heard before, but if he is earning that much then what will be google earning :)????????
     
    gauravgrt, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  3. falguni1

    falguni1 Peon

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    I doubt this earning report is true. I think what will remain with google after paying him such a big amount.
     
    falguni1, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  4. Emie.

    Emie. Banned

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  5. GameOver

    GameOver Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the interesting post, I had no idea of this, I am now searching in google to learn more about his story.
     
    GameOver, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  6. saurabhj

    saurabhj Banned

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    #6
    That's Interesting Info.. Thanks for share !!
     
    saurabhj, Apr 11, 2008 IP
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  8. Im The ONE

    Im The ONE Peon

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    (We urge people to please ignore these emails and stop passing them around! If you are interested in the real background on Orkut, check out official sources of visit Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut)

    As far as I know Orkut used to work for xyz company and he made university social networking software for them and as a matter of fact google was also sued by xyz company because orkut.com's code was based on the software he had earlier made for them.

    You should clear your facts first DON :p
     
    Im The ONE, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  9. gauravgrt

    gauravgrt Peon

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    Thanks for sharing correct info dude :)
     
    gauravgrt, Apr 11, 2008 IP
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    5starpix Notable Member

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    wow, these guys are rich, lol..$200 per image upload? :eek:
     
    5starpix, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  11. kodut

    kodut Well-Known Member

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    well the last cool facts are totally lies , dont know about the above story
    can you post the source
     
    kodut, Apr 11, 2008 IP
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    #12
    Any authoritative link explaining how ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN became so popular and richer and would be the richest by 2009?
     
    dairyman, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  13. kingofsanda

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    #13
    This is great info, thanks for sharing.
     
    kingofsanda, Apr 11, 2008 IP
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    seogoogle Well-Known Member

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    #14
    Interesting but thats earning is not True it is so much

    and here is a great person who Develop Orkut

    Check this ORKUT

     
    seogoogle, Apr 11, 2008 IP
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    Hogwash.

    That is what I think.

    Not the story, but the amount he ' gets ' paid.
     
    gr8liverpoolfan, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  16. Emie.

    Emie. Banned

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    #16
    The story and the amount of money he gets paid are both false.
     
    Emie., Apr 11, 2008 IP
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    I wonder who had this crazy idea of it and wondered why it got banned in UAE by such hoax.
     
    digitalduke, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  18. kaung

    kaung Twitter @KaungKo

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    i'm hiring whoever wrote that as an article writer :p haha
     
    kaung, Apr 11, 2008 IP
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    I wasn't so sure about the former, but was definitely sure about the latter.
     
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  20. Zerosleep

    Zerosleep Established User

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    Donno whether this is true or not but if it is true then i can just say OH MY FKING GOD!!!
     
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