Category Archives: Goog + Orkut

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What Google Can Potentially Do With Your Privacy To Add Another Billion $

With all those data point from the plethora of free Google products that website owners and users surround themselves with, we can only imagine what kind of ad targeting platform can be made but Google can actually make it. Imagine if you … Read More »

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17 Feb

Orkut Is Giving Free Movie Tickets In Return For a Comment [OMG!]

By Guest Author 5 Comments

So after all the failed attempts to learn from Facebook, Orkut seems to be making its final move before it hits the graveyard. And this one looks quite desperate for sure. Orkut India is giving away movie tickets for a … Read More »

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21 Jul

Orkut to Launch Face Detection Technology to speed up Face Tagging

By manish 5 Comments

Taking a leaf (or the entire tree?) from Facebook, Orkut is planning to launch face tagging – though the big differentiator is face detection technique that

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19 Jun

Google Search – The Success story

By Nishith Rastogi 1 Comment

[This article is part of Ten Years, Ten Products and Ten Million Lessons series, where we will take successful startups and drilll down their success story.] Few justifications if any, need to be given for choosing “Google Search” as the … Read More »

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10 Jun

Google Launches Translator Toolkit – Convert any Document/Website to language of your choice

By sinha 2 Comments

Google has launched Translator toolkit that will enable you to translate any document/website/wikipedia, knol page in a language of your choice. Google Translator toolkit integrates Google translation, WYSIWYG editor, and one can covert

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10 Jun

Orkut Wants Advertisers – But Why a Blog Post?

By sinha 2 Comments

Monetizing social networks has been a traditional challenge for companies (Read: Why advertising in social networks does not work?) and Orkut has gone all the way to publish a blog post calling advertisers to advertise@ Orkut. “Recently we decided to … Read More »

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31 May

Google gets back Googblog.com domain (from an Indian)

By sinha 6 Comments

Google has won back the Googblog.com domain name from an Indian national, Herit Shah. Google filed a case few months back and WIPO has instructed Herit Shah (who registered the domain, googblog from GoDaddy in Sep 2008) to return back … Read More »