As Google says, an archive of all public communities will become available but starting from today, it will be impossible to create an Orkut account. Also, by removing Orkut permanently from your Google account, your posts or name won’t be included in the community archive. Also, former Orkut users will be unable to log in or export their photo albums to Google+ once the service gets closed. This is an unexpected move, as it would’ve made more sense for Google to allow this, and it would’ve helped to increase the number of active Google Plus users, as well. Orkut is one of those start-ups which appeared thanks to Google’s 20 percent initiative where employees were allowed to use a fifth of their working week on side projects. The name of the service is given after Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer. The Orkut app will be removed from Google Play and the App Store later today, as well. Albeit Google hasn’t given an official reason for the closure, it doesn’t surprise anybody, and it might actually be perceived as something that should’ve happened long before.
