How might I use your free social graph search engine without a facebook account?
make a fake one, I wont hold it against you.
Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people
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#22This literally makes me angry.
Let me know how I can help?
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#23Nice functionality!
Thanks
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#24I assume that by signing up with possibly the most invasive, OTT privileges I've yet seen for fb then I am added to you database and thus become searchable?
Odds are you are already in there. If you want I can look you up and email a file back to you with what we have?
Our permissions are to improve your search experience. And we got the feedback from today that we need to pair it down, we will be doing that. In the meantime if you want to change the scope in the permissions I wont hold it against you (email and public profile are pretty much needed to make it work)
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#25For anyone wondering, the permissions it requests are: "Generator Lab will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, email address, custom friends lists, News Feed, birthday, work history, status updates, education history, current city, photos, website and personal description and your friends' work histories, status updates, education histories, current cities, photos, websites, personal descrip…
Yeah, we wanted to make sure we could properly let you search your connections, there is a toggle on the top right to do so. That being said, if you want, change the scope of the request and the site should (i think) still work for you... if you feel the need to do so, drop it down to public profile and email which i think is the bare minimum.
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Yeah, we wanted to make sure we could properly let you search your connections, there is a toggle on the top right to do so. That being said, if you want, change the scope of the request and the site should (i think) still work for you... if you feel the need to do so, drop it down to public profile and email which i think is the bare minimum.
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Sorry you feel that way. Once again, let me know If you want me to remove your profile from our system. if you give me an email ( handle @ gmail dot com ) Ill send you exactly what we have for you. (that goes for everyone reading this. its your information, if you don't want it in our search engine, we don't either.)
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#27How does this work?
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#28How does this work?
We have over 25 million entity resolved profiles representing 100s of millions of social profiles. We aggregate all the people into documents that just represent them, and make a search engine to work on that document set. The end goal is helping you find people.
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#29I assume that by signing up with possibly the most invasive, OTT privileges I've yet seen for fb then I am added to you database and thus become searchable?
Odds are you are already in there. If you want I can look you up and email a file back to you with what we have? Our permissions are to improve your search experience. And we got the feedback from today that we need to pair it down, we will be doing that. In the meantime if you want to change the scope in the permissions I wont hold it against you (email and public profile are pretty much needed to make it work)
The best thing to come out of this is that it's an excellent eye opener as to how out there all our information is. The fact that you can say that he's probably in your system already is horrifying and shitty
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What is proprietary about your graph search engine? I guess you mean you're licensing someone else's tech? edit: Wow, huge claims. Hundreds of millions of social media accounts, FULL INFO on 25 million people? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence that doesn't demand I give you such ridiculous, completely irrational permissions on my facebook account. Everything about this screams "product manager" who…
No, we built this ourselves and are pretty proud of that. I don't need your data from facebook man, let me know if you want me to delete your profile and I am more than happy to do so. P.S. its been a busy day and I want to deploy things the right way, feel free to change scope in the auth.
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