Google Responds: No,That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken)
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 12, 2012
In that story, I reported about 2009 negotiations over incorporation of Facebook data into Google search. In 2009, we were negotiating with Facebook over access to its data, as has been reported. To claim that the we couldn’t reach an agreement because Google wanted to make private data publicly available is simply untrue.”.
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