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According to foreign media reports, Google announced Monday, will be held on September 30 this year to close its social networking site Orkut, other social networks business to focus on the company, like YouTube, Blogger and Google + etc.

This shows that, despite Google's early foray into social networking area, but in the fast-growing and lucrative industry, said Google has largely missed development opportunities.

Founded Orkut Google 10 years ago, this was the company's first venture into social networking. Orkut in Brazil and some other countries was broadly welcomed, but when Facebook and some competitors in Asia grows, the site was a troubled.

In 2011, Google has launched its social networking service Google+, but the service's development has not been very successful. Google+ executive weike·gangduotela (Vic Gundotra) in April of this year turnover due to the number of users of the service continues to lag behind Facebook.

Google said that Orkut's growth lagged behind the rest of the company social networking business. The company announced that the service will be closed on September 30 this year, starting from this Monday (June 30), the user will not be able to create a new Orkut account.

Google says that existing users can use a service called Google Takeout, use it on Orkut profile data export, posts and photos, while Google Takeout service will remain until September 2016.