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July 21, 2005

Drug Pushers Using Orkut Arrested In Brazil

During today's Google conference call, Sergey Brin said that Orkut's growth in Brazil is phenomenal. Sadly, this Reuters article: Police: Orkut used as Brazilian drug network, offers details about a few people who were taking "social-networking" a bit to far.

Brazilian police arrested 10 people on Thursday accused of selling drugs using Google's international social networking site Orkut, which is hugely popular in the Latin American country.

Posted by Gary Price at July 21, 2005 6:44 PM