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image thumb74 Facebook’s Desperate Attempt To Win Over Orkut In India, Goes For Sponsored Ads On Google In India

There is seriously no limit to the extent one can go to grab market share, even if it involves spending cash. Facebook is doing the same to challenge Orkut in India as the Google owned social network reigns supreme there. There is a surprisingly high number of Facebook references or should I say promotions of Facebook on Google ads as reported.

The social network is actually buying ads on the Search Engine. The users in India have been experiencing this for quite some time now and as I said earlier, it is a desperate measure that makes me believe me that if you can’t win it, buy it, which is exactly what Facebook is doing. The social network despite making huge leaps in amassing users Globally, has failed terribly to make a mark in India where Orkut is the ultimate leader in the social networking scene. I guess the Facebook is feeling the brunt of it as it can’t maximize on the massive Indian Market and make huge profits there.

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image thumb1 Orkut set for redesign, trying to keep itself alive

Orkut is set to redesign its web page and as always doing things when Facebook has actually done it ages back. The redesign will make site much faster and every action is now placed right in front and the center, again like Facebook and other networks. Plus it has also cut short the number of pages making it easier to keep an eye on all updates as well as comment on statuses. It has also integrated numerous features from Google Maps, etc as well. Orkut might not be able to get over Facebook, but it can definitely hold its lead in India and Brazil where it still reigns supreme.

image thumb22 Facebook: Let me kill Orkut once and for all!The problem with successful brands is that the are always looking for things to improve and beat any competition. We have seen how Facebook has grown exponentially but the social network faces some difficulties in countries outside the US. One of them is Orkut, though the Google owned social network is quite unknown in the US, but that isn’t stopping Facebook from devouring it absolutely. The social network has introduced the Import tool which lets you import your Orkut contacts to your Facebook. Not sure why exactly is Facebook is on the killing spree to eliminate Orkut, which never really stood anywhere in the social scene in the US market. And guess what, this would soon follow the globe and users do love Facebook a lot and with this coming, they would gladly have all their contacts synced at one place. So when exactly is Orkut going to be a nobody in the next few years?

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image thumb13 Back to the Past: The Need to Socialize

I always use to hear this from my dad ‘You need to have a PR in order to expand’. This was almost 15 years back, when the Web hadn’t really evolved to what it is at present and his PR meant meeting people in real life. I wasn’t into all this, meeting people, chatting with them let alone the idea of using them to expand. Never really understood the idea. But in comes the Boom and we have the Online World, a.k.a Social Networks and I am writing a blog for passion and always on the lookout to expand it to the readers all across the globe. I understand the need to socialize, to build up a PR and the Web has taught me this. Surprising as many a gurus have benefited from the real life PR to grow into what they are on the Web, I am taking a different direction and I bet there are many out there who are doing exactly what I am, perhaps in a much refined manner.

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