Orkut Büyükkökten
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| 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 Konya-Turkey, 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.
Büyükkökten started working at Google in 2002 and is one of its top employees[citation needed].
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 networking website in Brazil and India .
[edit] References
- ^ Terdiman, D (2004-06-30). "Lawsuit: Google Stole Orkut Code". Wired. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2004/06/64046. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
[edit] External links
- Büyükkökten's Orkut profile (Registration required)
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