Addicted is understating our obsession

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I used it when I was in engineering college,” Chand said, recalling the days of shared weak Wi-Fi in dorm rooms and big, heavy IBM computers. Chand paints a picture of when being hooked to Orkut was the norm. she said. And let’s not forget those Yahoo forwards filled with quotable quotes shared on Orkut. Seeing your wall and the new feed popping on it was a different vibe. “Today’s social media features change in the blink of an eye and Orkut’s slow stable feature – the wall, the scrapbook, the direct messages were etched on my mind,” Chand shares.

But, like all good things, Orkut had its DB to Data moment. As platforms like Facebook offered more simplicity, reliability, and innovative features like a self-updating News Feed, Orkut struggled to keep up with its increasing complexity and limited user range. Eventually, Google shifted its focus to newer ventures, like Google+, and in 2014, it was time to bid Orkut farewell. “So many memories and an entire memorabilia was buried along with Orkut’s discontinuation,” she said, wishing for some saved screenshots of those times.



Hello, featured snippets! Who doesn’t love a quick answer? That’s what Google’s featured snippets aimed to do, and have done for years now. Featured snippets, those handy blocks of content directly answering our queries at the top of SERPS, made their grand entrance in January 2014, much to the dismay of SEOs that relied on traffic for even the shortest answers. They quickly became known as Google’s “answer boxes” or “quick answers,” pulling the most relevant information from web pages and placing it right at the top of our search results.