Google on Monday said it plans to shut down its 10-year-old Orkut social network at the end of September.
"Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world," said Paulo Golgher, engineering director at Google, in a blog post. "Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau)."
orkut was successful in the beginning but it has been overtaken by Facebook and was competing with Google+ Especially in 2012
Google plans to shut down Orkut (that debuted in 2004), on Sept. 30 and maintain profile data, community posts, and photos until September 2016. Golgher suggests Orkut users might want to export their data using Google Takeout, a service Google provides to ensure data portability.
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