I just had a look over what was happening with Google’s Orkut which was one of the most popular social networks in India and Brazil. It seems like things have changed and it has lost its majority user base to the largest social network  Facebook.According to Alexa  Orkut is almost dead as compared to it was an year back. It has lost a massive number of users who previously used to keep visiting the website after every few minutes.

But still they are in the game, the website still receives millions of pageviews every day which is enormous and it is still one of the top rankings websites in the world. Also we have not seen Google placing more importance over its social network.

Which means that they were possibly not able to make money off the project since social sites have a very low click through rate on advertisements.We have seen Google move to other projects like Google Wave and Google Buzz as it seems they are trying to test other niches that focus more on real time information which is playing an important role in their search technology.