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by willchilcutt 4707 days ago
So did a third of other random people surveyed. You would not be in the majority apparently, and after seeing a logo or web page you would hopefully be able to figure out it is not created by Facebook.
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If 20% said Apple, and 20% said Google, and 10% said YouTube, and the rest said "don't know" then a majority did think it was Facebook.
...and yet, it doesn't matter.

36% were confused by FACEMAIL, and 0% were confused by THINKMAIL.

29% is considered enough to be confusing.

It doesn't matter whether it's a majority. A third of people is a large proportion.
So what's your point? Does this mean Facebook has some right to the 'face-' prefix? I strongly disagree.

Might be worth looking over the history between Apple Corps and Apple Computer [1]. Who should have had the trademark there?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

There is only so much stupid you can engineer around, technically and legally.