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The money quote: "The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data," Mr. Schmidt said. "Failing that, there are other ways to get that info
by mahmud 16y ago
The money quote:
"The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data," Mr. Schmidt said. "Failing that, there are other ways to get that information." He declined to be specific.
What is google gonna do if they're not authorized to access the users' private social graph? Any sniffing/MIM/deep-inspection trick they might pull off would be illegal and unauthorized. Are they gonna bury the consent form in some google ToS/EULA that people will need to click through to read their emails?
Seems like an empty threat to me.
- ntoshev 16y agoFor a quote out of context, by "that information" he could have easily meant "the real-world social connections between people", which Google could probably infer from Gmail. Such articles are meaningless.
- houseabsolute 16y agoThe other alternative is that he may have been talking about getting Facebook's data with its users' authorization.
- jacquesm 16y agoI think this quote is an open license to spider googles search results in return. Google should not want to have data that people protect using something as simple as their robots.txt file, the fact that Schmidt would go on the record to suggest that he would go around means google has just lost a lot of goodwill points when it comes to people abusing google.