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I wish I could turn this off or edit it, it's a bit creepy and never really shows me anything relevant.
You can always just edit your contacts on the original sites where the information came from and either wait for a recrawl or force a recrawl using: https://sgapi-recrawl.appspot.com/
386 secondary connections. Impressive. Is there an API to access these infos?
Identifying real people is a core concept at Facebook. and something they have got right (identity) and google will find difficult to replicate.
[0] I wouldn't have realised this point as quickly had I not read "The Facebook Effect" ~ http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Effect-Inside-Company-Connect... which despite its flaws gives some useful insights. Excerpt: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06/facebook-david-kirkpatrick/
I wish I could turn this off or edit it, it's a bit creepy and never really shows me anything relevant.
It's all based on public data gathered using this: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/ You can always just edit your contacts on the original sites where the information came from and either wait for a recrawl or force a recrawl using: https://sgapi-recrawl.appspot.com/
My "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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It's all based on public data gathered using this: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/ You can always just edit your contacts on the original sites where the information came from and either wait for a recrawl or force a recrawl using: https://sgapi-recrawl.appspot.com/
Some of it is from people I've exchanged emails with over GMail, which shouldn't be public data, unless Google has leaked it out somehow.
Also are they using meta data like XFN and microformats to garner some of the data or is it just internal Google social links?
Google is missing the thing that Facebook does well here, "identifying real people" . [0] When I looked at the "Friends" google identified it was really just connections I'd made with Twitter, flickr and various other services. Very few I'd met or consider a friend. Parsing data to find friends isn't as good as being sucked into the human "social graph" . Identifying real people is a core concept at Facebook. and som…
If I'm searching for a good online backup service I care more about the opinions of people I follow on twitter than those of my non-technical friends and family, etc.
So, my questions are will this be used to alter search results - eg this person is well connected in this field and regularly visits these domains, hence we'll add a bit of authority to those domains? Seems they should probably try it. Also are they using meta data like XFN and microformats to garner some of the data or is it just internal Google social links?