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Last month Face.com launched Photo Finder, a facial recognition app for Facebook.  Today they’re issuing a “30 Days Out” announcement which includes some pretty amazing / “holy moly” stats in terms of the number of photos scanned and the number of faces identified – and that’s given only a few thousand users in Alpha!  The big deal about Face.com is being able to discover photos of yourself or your friends that you might have never even known about.  The app launched last month, and in their first 30 days, with only a few thousand initial users, Face.com scanned more than 400 million photos, and identified / tagged more than 700,000 faces!

Given the magnitude of Facebook’s photo storage (15 billion photos), the buzz around facial recognition (Apple, Google Picasa, etc.), and the incredible technology they’ve built, we think Face.com is going to do some amazing things.  They’ve already off to a good start (400 million photos…)

As they’ve done in the past, Face.com is issuing their news via blog post (linked above.)  Several publications have written about the news, we’ll keep a running list below, and update throughout the day.

• Mashable
• All Facebook
• Techcrunch
• Ubergizmo
• Inquisitr

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