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vecinu on June 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Face.com acquired by Facebook

This is incorrect. Read the entire post and realize that Facebook has been using Face.com's tech for facial tagging already.

philwelch on June 18, 2012 [–]

Though honestly, the domain is valuable too. Lots of people probably type in "face" expecting it to autocomplete, and it doesn't always.

tesseract on June 19, 2012 | [–]

Sure, but anyone who does that is already a Facebook user.

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