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I really hate to sound mean, but it’s the second day that the Orkut’s community search does not work. In the main page, if anybody goes to the Communities tab, one is able to see the communities he subscribed to (after some while). However if anybody tries the search there, this page is retuned:
As I said, it’s the second day the server behaves this way. I would have written to them, if there were some way to contact them, but I couldn’t find one, therefore I’m complaining here, in my blog. It’s strange that the very search feature doesn’t work, and google was supposed to be all about search.

Another interesting stuff I just found out: The very google engine shows a bad image for orkut. This image means that by the time Orkut was crawled, it was completelly down. (btw, did I mention that this makes me admire again how unbiased the google search results really are)

I wonder how does this social networking experiment is perceived on the inside by Google. I mean they started out nice, with a few webservers and a couple of engineers. I guess the tiny “in affiliation with Google” message at the bottom of the page made the traffic of the website at least a thousand times more the amount it would have normally received. If it were that much of an experiment, it should have started, in my humble opinion, without that message. Anyway, I hope they fix it and, if this experiment is not too much ahead its time, allocate more resources to it.