Almost 80% of internet users in Brazil use Orkut, a social network owned by Google.
Google products that allegedly infringe include search, Gmail, Google Finance, Google Maps, Orkut and Adsense, among others.
Apart from Android, Google has produced a series of flops like Google Wave, Google Buzz, and Orkut.
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Google Brasil says that Orkut has some display ad formats that are completely sold out for 2011.
Orkut meanwhile had 820, 000 visitors in the US in February, down from around 1 million in February 2010.
As internet use rises in Brazil and reaches new social groups, better-off Brazilians are leaving Orkut for Facebook.
And while www.orkut.com.br was originally started in Silicon Valley, it was run by and then based in Brazil.
Orkut, a social network with several million users (most of them in Brazil and Iran), has three full-time staffers.
And the Orkut worm was an experimental attack, merely alerting users that they'd been infected with a Portuguese message.
Of course they are, especially considering that over 90% of the page views on Orkut are viewed in Brazil.
Moreover, Brazilians log onto their Orkut account more times per month than the average viewer logs onto Facebook worldwide.
Many stopped using Orkut and started to use Facebook all over the world.
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It already has a social network, Orkut, and a Twitter-like service called Jaiku, but neither has been wildly successful.
Of course Twitter and Facebook are in there but they also look at sites like Renren and Orkut.
Last year, an average of 31.2 million visitors logged onto Orkut, registering 20.6 million average page views, according to ComScore.
Brazil is the only market in which Google, through Orkut, has managed to beat Facebook in the social media sphere.
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Up until a few years ago, Orkut was the largest social media site in Brazil, but the behemoth facebook overtook it.
Google, which owns Orkut, a social network extremely popular in Brazil and parts of Asia, is expected to do the same soon.
Orkut icons on corporate and media websites are as prominent as the f icon of Facebook and the lower case t of Twitter.
In March, Orkut had 34.2 million unique visitors from the home and office market which is calculated in Brazil to be around 46 million.
The Orkut virus came into contact with 700, 000 users in a 24 hour period, according to Zulfikar Ramzan, a researcher with security software firm Symantec.
Orkut remains the leading social networking site in Brazil, however.
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With the current situations it is all most impossible for Google to restore the popularity of Orkut and trying on it will be a mad decision.
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With the growing popularity many other attractive features were included in Facebook, thus many started feeling that their Orkut account is useless and deleted their accounts.
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And in late December, a worm spread through Google 's social networking site, Orkut, infecting hundreds of thousands of accounts and sending messages from friend to friend.
Google is certainly hoping it will do better than Orkut has fared in the U.S. Users being able to import contacts from Facebook would help with that.
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So far this includes Google's network, Orkut, as well as LinkedIn, Ning, hi5, Friendster, Xing, Plaxo and a few others.
Sure there is room for two social networks in Brazil (sorry My Space), with Orkut being the Brazilian go-to site, and Facebook being the one for international contacts.
Google's Orkut and Facebook are the main social network rivals.
For now, Orkut remains the leading social network in Brazil.
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