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Family Tree

MyHeritage Buys Kindo, Moves Towards Family Monopoly

September 22, 2008

MyHeritage.com announced today they have acquired UK based family geneology site Kindo.com.
Started by two ex-Skype engineers, Kindo doesn’t have many users, but their technology is superior to its competitors.
Major competitor to MyHeritage is Geni.com, who has been starting to slip in their family tree battle. Their last strongpoint to stay in the space was [...]

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MyHeritage Boasts Facial Recognition

September 9, 2008

The family based social network, MyHeritage, just announced the addition of facial recognition software.
This software automatically tags photos of family members as they are uploaded.
All it takes is one normal profile pic for the tagging to work.
MyHeritage competes with sites like Geni and has acquired a global total of 25 million users.
A great tool for [...]

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Which Family Tree Site Do You Use?

September 7, 2008

MyHertiage has just announced that they have grown 70% this year and raised another $15m (Index and Accel)
They are claiming 260m profiles and 25m registered members on the family tree service.
Geni, the other competitor in the space, only has 2m registered users and their traffic is now more than 30% less than MyHeritage.com

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