Orkut blog has a post on Orkut being voted the new youth icon by MTV in India.
As soon as I saw the title of this post and the accompanying Doodle, the first fear I had, even before reading the post, was that this would be splashed on Orkut’s login page.
And yes, as soon as I saw the login page of Orkut, my fears were proven right. Now, how can someone at Google be stupid enough to do it?
The Marketing folks at MTV would be delighted by the free mileage they must be getting. Orkut attracts huge traffic in India (check this trends comparison on the traffic. Esp. in India) and having your icon flashed free of cost on the homepage is something. I consider it the second biggest and costliest mistake this month by Orkut folks in India, the first was of course the Independence day stunt with really badly created polls (see the choices given in the polls, if you still don’t get it read the comments. “I am shocked“, ” Shame on u” are but a few).
Facebook, here I come!
