| Developers: | VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) |
| Branches: | Internet services |
2022: Application Announcement
On May 23, 2022, VK Holding announced the launch of an application for searching for people in Russia, the CIS and other countries. The search for acquaintances and distant relatives is carried out by profiles on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, which are used monthly by more than 100 million people around the world.
 | To start a search in the application, you need to fill out a questionnaire with data about the person you are looking for in the mini-application - his first name, last name, approximate age and more. After that, the system will issue a selection of profiles from VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, which fall under the specified set of parameters. You can contact the person found by texting him or sending a request to friends. |  |
| | Even in the age of the Internet, people lose contact with each other. We are pleased to introduce a convenient search and communication tool that will allow our users to quickly reunite with friends, relatives and loved ones, "says Dmitry Uvarov, Director of Strategic Partnership at VK. - This is the result of the joint work of VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, which united to help find people dear to the heart among tens of millions of users of social networks. | |
The new application is available on the VK Mini Apps platform. As noted in VK, the company consistently invests its technologies and experience in the development of social projects, creates its own services to solve socially important problems, and also supports charitable foundations.
Earlier, the Russian company N-Tech.Lab launched the dating service FindFace, which allows you to find a person's profile in social networks from his photo. The application can find a person's profile in social networks in just one shot, which should not necessarily have good quality. To find a person in a database of 300 million photos FindFace it takes less than a second, the accuracy of the determination is about 70%.[1]
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