Re:Facebook and Twitter Don’t Know What You Want
by paulsutter on Saturday August 18, 2012 @09:14PM
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I think what he's trying to say is that Facebook lacks intent data (which is the richest at a search engine like google).
Open Graph actually does give Facebook a great deal of behavioral data that includes intent. But AFAIK it's just an arbitrary policy decision that Facebook is not using off-Facebook data within Facebook, and also not using Facebook data outside of Facebook. I didn't mean to write a tongue-twister, sorry there.
If they change their mind on the arbitrary policy decision they'll have a lot more data to work with.
Open Graph actually does give Facebook a great deal of behavioral data that includes intent. But AFAIK it's just an arbitrary policy decision that Facebook is not using off-Facebook data within Facebook, and also not using Facebook data outside of Facebook. I didn't mean to write a tongue-twister, sorry there.
If they change their mind on the arbitrary policy decision they'll have a lot more data to work with.