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All you orkut freaks click on the following link immediately

http://www.orkut.co.in/PrivacySettings.aspx

Then see the following snapshot

I hope you must have understood the whole story by now.

Orkut has added more options to its privacy features according to which you can send friend requests to :-

• Anyone on orkut OR
• only people who know your email address (This is the default option unless you select some option) OR
• only friends of your friends OR
• people from particular countries or regions

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If you have any questions, feel free to comment ..

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Orkut has launched Orkut SmS. It was also a much needed feature for all orkut users who did not have gprs enabled phones and wanted to stay in touch with their family and friends via orkut when on move also.

Orkut sms feature was launched in Brazil a long time back but not in India. Now, it has been launched.

To configure your Orkut Mobile settings, Just click on the link below

http://www.orkut.co.in/MobileSetupSettings.aspx

To know more about the Orkut SmS feature on Orkut Help , visit the following link

http://help.orkut.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=50317&hl=en-US

The Orkut SmS service has been launched for only the following service providers

Aircel, BPL, MTNL, Tata, Reliance and Spice

It has not been launched for two of the most popular mobile service providers in India like Airtel, Vodafone and BSNL till now. They may be introduced in the near future.

Moreover the service is not free. While Orkut does not charge you, the mobile operators may charge their fee for sending and receiving an SMS. The pricing details are available only for Brazil Telecom Providers at the link below. The prices in India are not known till now

http://help.orkut.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=50317&hl=en-US

If you people come to know of any updates, keep them posted..:)

Call it internet treachery if you like but three former senior engineers from the Google campus are trying to usurp the search-engine crown from their former employer by launching an alternative tool that they hope we may all one day use for scouring cyberspace content.

With $33m (£16.5m) in venture capital funds, Anne Patterson and two other Google alumni – Russell Power and Louis Monier – yesterday took the wraps off Cuil.com. Their boast was brave if predictable: Cuil (pronounced "cool") will be easier and nicer to use and will have a longer reach.

To be more specific, the folk at Cuil.com – Ms Patterson's husband, Tom Costello, is also a founder – will have a search index spanning 120 billion web pages. If it's out there, Cuil will find it for you. No one will say what span Google boasts, but almost three years ago it stood at 8.2billion pages.

Cuil won't divulge the formula it has developed to cover a wider chunk of the internet with far fewer computers than Google. But rather than trying to mimic Google's method of ranking the quantity and quality of links to websites, Ms Patterson says Cuil's technology drills into the actual content of a page.

Its results are displayed with more photos spread horizontally across the page and include sidebars that can be clicked on to learn more about topics related to the original search request. Cuil is also hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns – something that Google does, much to the consternation of many privacy watchdogs.

Ms Patterson, who left Google back in 2006, claimed most surfers are ready for a new approach to content-searching. "Google has looked pretty much the same for 19 years now and I can guarantee it will look the same a year from now," she said.

Google itself did not appear overly concerned about Cuil's debut. "Having great competitors is a huge benefit to us and everyone in the search space," said a company spokesman. "It makes us all work harder, and at the end of the day our users benefit from that."

Lest anyone forget, Google does not have a monopoly on internet searches, or at least not quite. Recent data show the company commanding 62 per cent of the US market, compared to 21 per cent and 8.5 per cent respectively for its two largest rivals, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN service. Nor is it by any means the first time that a new upstart company like Cuil has joined the fray. Other plucky pretenders include Teoma (which was adopted by Ask.com), Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and Powerset. Cuil sets itself apart, however, by being created by ex-Google engineers.

As for its name, the company says it was inspired by the Irish roots of Mr Costello and specifically a Celtic folklore figure named Finn McCuill (or Finn McCool). They might want to rectify one early problem. A search on Cuil.com for information about the aforementioned Mr McCuill turned upprecisely nothing.

* The editor of the BBC’s Newsnight programme has resigned his position to join Google as head of PR for the UK. Peter Barron has spent 12 years at the BBC2 programme, as well as time at Channel 4 and with Tonight with Trevor McDonald