nileshkurhade - 3:18 am on Jan 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

Orkut.com is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends. [searchenginewatch.com...]

All employees at Google are allowed to spend twenty percent of their time working on personal interests, a policy Google has to encourage creativity. Buyukkokten had an interest in social networking and so developed his service, Google says. Now the company has decided to open it to the public. The move comes in the wake of rumors that Google wanted to buy social networking service Friendster last year and just a day after Eurekster launched, a social network service that refines search results. Is this a sign that Google plans to use social networking for search?