Re:Greplin (YC W10) Search Engine Tackles Facebook, Twitter
by mayank on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @06:32PM
(#2228847)
I agree, this is quite worrying, and I'm not aware of "data licensing" for services like Facebook.
From the FAQ:
--Greplin updates your data approximately every 20 minutes, however, in high-load situations, updates can take up to a day.
So it definitely seems like all your data ends up in a giant DB somewhere. Unless they've worked out amazing data licensing contracts with Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter, I'd be very surprised if this was legal.
EDIT: Facebook appears to have changed their data retention policies from what they were. The 24-hour caching restriction seems to have been removed:
http://developers.facebook.com/policy/#policies
From the FAQ:
--Greplin updates your data approximately every 20 minutes, however, in high-load situations, updates can take up to a day.
So it definitely seems like all your data ends up in a giant DB somewhere. Unless they've worked out amazing data licensing contracts with Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter, I'd be very surprised if this was legal.
EDIT: Facebook appears to have changed their data retention policies from what they were. The 24-hour caching restriction seems to have been removed: http://developers.facebook.com/policy/#policies