It’s Official. Facebook Beats Orkut in India Search Trends
February 2, 2010 |16:33 | News By : Team X
Orkut is losing it’s market share in India – and not in terms of absolute traffic, but purely on interest/intent of users. Picture is worth more than a thousand words – so take a look at Google trends data , which showcases the trending of search result on Google.The inflexion point occurred towards the end of 2009 and what’s interesting is the consistency of Facebook search volume as opposed to Orkut, which is dwindling.The writing is on the wall.

Note On Google Trends It’s not that Facebook has beaten Orkut in absolute traffic – there still is a long way to go. But, Google Trends gives you an idea about the ‘trend‘, the intent of users and it’s surely oscillating towards FB. It’s just a matter of time. What’s your take?

Google has released a chrome extension for Orkut. The extension allows you to search for friends, directly jumpto their profile pag , check scrap count etc.
We all know that Facebook has already surpassed Orkut as the most visited social network website in India where Orkut used to be the most visited social network once! The war is still not over and Facebook now wants to leap frog Orkut. Well, not that Orkut kept quiet, they too have taken counter steps to check facebook’s growth but have not made much of a difference.
Tomorrow India will witness their 61st Republic Day and tomorrow every citizen will yet again enthralled by the performance in Republic Day.
6 years ago, on January 22, 2004, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten creates a small concept of global social networking and site designed in such a way that it help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships with slogan of ‘who do you know?’
When Google went public in 2004, its brilliant founders Segey Brin and Larry Page spoke about their idealism in the IPO document:
Orkut recently announced the launch of orkut video chat, an easy way to get in touch with your family and friends that to face-to-face, directly from your orkut pages.





