But it is competing very directly for Google for the best engineering talent in Silicon Valley, starting with the two leads of Facebook's Graph Search project, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky.
Rasmussen joined Facebook in late 2010 after his last project at Google, a collaboration tool called Wave, got killed due to lack of interest. He'd previously overseen a big success, Google Maps, which sprang from a startup he cofounded that Google had acquired in 2004.
His partner on the project, Tom Stocky, joined Facebook in July 2011 directly from Google, where he worked in product management.