6 people... not impressive at all.
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#12It doesn't know much and what it knows is based on one other person who is connected to many other things. Poor Google.
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#13386 secondary connections. Impressive. Is there an API to access these infos?
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#14128 Direct connections that include all of my close friends.
121 Direct connections from links... which duplicate some of my close friends and then contain a load of bogus entries I don't recognise. These are all based on Flickr apparently.
3905 Secondary connections that do contain acquaintances, some good friends and lots of people I don't recognise.
It didn't do a bad job, but given that I use Google Chat and Calendar to organise stuff, that I use Google Contacts because of Android and that I have a lot of history in Google (email loaded from 1996) I'm not surprised that they have such a complete picture.
Edit: Just read up on it... it's figured out so much as I'd added sites to my Google Profile and it's followed those to determine the rest.
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#15I wish I could turn this off or edit it, it's a bit creepy and never really shows me anything relevant.
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#16Not much, apparently. It knows my Twitter network, of course, and that's helpful for search results (someone I follow on Twitter blogging about some arcane JRuby tidbit I'm searching for is great). If this is what Google's leaning on for their new social graph stuff, though, they're in trouble: it knew very little about my real-life friends. In other words, the friends that Facebook knows about. You can't glean that…
My Facebook network is not my real social network. It mostly contains people i know, not the ones i interact with. My real social network is in my Android powered phone. I am waiting for a better merge with the contacts on my phone and the rest of social circles.
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#17Returns the same old bogus "I emailed them once" people listed in my Google chat, apart from one person. Since I haven't given Google or YouTube my Facebook info it can't be so accurate.
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#18My "secondary connections" seem to be a bunch of cosmetic companies.
Mine are a bunch of restaurants, again all through one primary connection.
Considering that I am the ONLY person on Facebook with my firstname/lastname, and that my 522 Facebook friends are publicly accessible, how and why is Google not indexing Facebook? Is it just a matter of pride?
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#19Testing...
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#20Your social circle as determined by Google is currently a blank slate. – excellent.
A well aimed arrow if ever there was one