Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. Food Tech Connect. SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Noticias de Venezuela y Latinoamérica en Noticias24. Google "Still Waiting" for Facebook to Open User Data. Google chief executive Larry Page has revealed that the search giant is still waiting for Facebook to get in touch to allow users to share data between the two companies’ services.
Google and Facebook have long had a frosty relationship, which was particularly spiked when an adjustment of Google’s terms of service preventing Facebook users importing data from the search giant. Speaking to US talk show host Charlie Rose, as VentureBeat reports, Page explained that Facebook needs to open its data in order to allow users to share information — such as contacts — between the two services, which, he says, would provide significant benefits. “I think it’s been unfortunate that Facebook has been pretty closed with their data,” Page said. The Google API requires services to reciprocate the data share and, since Facebook does not, a disconnect between two of the world’s most influential sites — which know more about Web users than almost any others — developed.