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KaamDev
17th November 2006, 02:20 PM
I got this mail today, But I am not sure, this is true?

Here it is:

A very Good morning !!

Have a great day ahead !!!!

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....
but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievemnt in itself!!.
He hired devlopers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web...
Things went as planned...
n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!

It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy n took over this application, This Software made a whopping 1 billion dolar profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT.

The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN. Yes its named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping.
He is expected to b the richest person by 2009.
ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!

Moral of the story:-
LOSE U R GIRLFRIEND AND MAKE BILLIONS!!!!

Some other Cool Facts abt this guy:
* He gets $12 frm Google when every person registers to this website.
* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 everytime you view ur friend's friend-list.

Admin
11th December 2006, 05:54 PM
:lol:

i just got this in a forward....

leleram
11th December 2006, 05:58 PM
Bull:shit:

jhoomroo
11th December 2006, 06:21 PM
mai dhoondoo tum kho jao...mithe sapneme kho jaoon... mai dhoondoo....

g f ko hi dhoodna parega kya????

greatalok
11th December 2006, 11:26 PM
Though the guy's name is indeed Orkut, I am sceptical about the GF story, ( lose gf to save money is a good idea though)

And the rates given are way too high..;)

DreamWeaver
12th December 2006, 11:01 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut
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""While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, InCircle, intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based Orkut on inCircle code. The allegation is based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in Orkut that also exist in InCircle.""
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Affinity Engines is into online marketing and doesn't seem to sell any "girlfriend finder" services.. ;)

also the "controversy" section of the Wiki article gives a fair idea about how much money google could be making out of it.. if any.. :001_rolleyes: :001_rolleyes:
I wont be surprised if its closed down or is othrwise trimmed down in future..