Orkut Büyükkökten

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Born	Turkey
Occupation	Software engineer
Years active	1987 – present

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Orkut Büyükkökten (February 6, 1975 in Konya, Turkey) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service Orkut.

Originally from Turkey Konya, Büyükkökten obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA.

Orkut started working at Google in 2002 and is one of its top employees.

He developed Orkut.com, the 3rd largest social network in the world, as a 20% independent project while working at Google. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based Orkut.com on code for InCircle, an application intended for university alumni groups. The allegation is based on the alleged presence of nine identical bugs in Orkut.com and in InCircle. ^[1]

[edit] Reception Of Orkut

Orkut is the most popular and the most visited social networking website in India and Brazil. orkut is now also available in other countries also...... now a days it became popular in so many countries in the world....

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[edit] External links

• Orkut's Orkut profile (Registration required)