Service Glancee has become a new acquisition of Facebook

Large Internet companies continue to buy less significant competitors, as well as services that become an addition to the basic functionality of certain products of the company-buyer. Not so long ago, Facebook acquired a social photo service Instagram for $ 1 billion. Yesterday it became known about another acquisition of Facebook - the social geological service Glancee.

This social discovery service allows you to search for users near you who may be of interest to you (among users who are registered on Facebook). Actually, Glancee is a kind of add-on over a social network, designed in the form of an application for Facebook. The criteria for “interestingness” are different - these are common acquaintances, common interests, and distance to a potential acquaintance. This service has already become quite popular, well, and its capabilities have liked the leadership of social network №1. So Facebook acquired Glancee, and probably did not lose.
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It is worth noting that the purchased service began work in 2010, and according to the founders, the purpose of the service is to bring together the digital and real world. Glancee has helped many users find interesting friends. And after all, there are a lot of people who may be of interest to us, and we to them. It is worth remembering the story told by the head of the dating club from “Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears”. Remember, the club met and later married a guy and a girl from the same entrance who saw each other only in the club?

And Glancee allows you to do without a club - the only condition for the service's performance is to register a user on Facebook. The development team from Glancee will continue to work in a social network. The amount of the transaction, unfortunately, is unknown.

Via CNET