A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....

but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20s?, achievement in itself!!

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his girl friend through the web..

Things went as planned...

And 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 Googlehad a word with this guy and took over this application,

This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars 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 be 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!!!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:

* He gets $12 from 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 every time you view your friend's friend-list.

From India, Pondicherry
Dear All Kindly visit the link and all will get the real answer as to origin of orkut Regards Octavious
From India, Mumbai
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