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Part of what’s hard about social search is that Facebook prohibits outside crawlers. But Riley said he’s confident that he can get Facebook data, because he has
by dmbaggett 15y ago
Part of what’s hard about social search is that Facebook prohibits outside crawlers. But Riley said he’s confident that he can get Facebook data, because he has gotten advice from Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, and has worked with Facebook’s legal team to make sure everything’s kosher.
This would seem to be a key point. Can anyone provide further details? Facebook hasn't historically shown much inclination to let others into the walled garden: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/04/how-i-got-sued-by-facebook.html http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/04/how-i-go...
Why would Facebook allow this?
- ianedwards 15y agoBecause they're not using a crawler, that's why. Or, at least, that's my sense of things.
- dmbaggett 15y agoWait, so now anyone who wants to index Facebook can, as long as they don't crawl? Obviously, that's not true. So what's the deal? Does Facebook now have warrants in ark.com or something? There must be some quid pro quo.
- compsciphd 15y agothey are probably using the graph api. Which doesn't give you access to much data for most people (As we're all trained to limit what other people's apps can see of us)
- priley 15y agoAbsolutely correct. We are using the Graph API. The magic comes with you do link analysis and cluster it with other public data.