Taking its data and going home: Facebook action forces Yandex to shut down mobile app
Yandex shut down its social search app today, soon after Facebook pulled the plug on the app's data access.
Yandex shut down its social search app today, soon after Facebook pulled the plug on the app's data access.
Facebook updated its Platform Policy today to explain why it shut down data access for social search app Wonder.
Yandex says Facebook is denying the company access to its data shortly after it launched social search app Wonder.
Yandex, a Russian search engine, released a new social search app that lets you ask questions like, "What ice cream shops do my friends like?" But in order to escape any Facebook wrath, the company is claiming the app is a "personal assistant."
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Popular social network Twitter will unveil significant changes to search and discovery as soon as today, according to a tweet by engineering manager Pankaj Gupta.
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The socially-augmented, Facebook-laden version of Bing’s search engine is now live for all people in the U.S., Microsoft announced today.
The new Bing, first revealed in early May, features a three column design with search results on the left; a …
A week after previewing the revamped Bing, Microsoft has released the latest version of its search engine to people in the U.S. Head over to Bing.com/new to test out the new social features as well as annoy your friends with …
Today, Google introduced Search Plus Your World. Wait no: Actually, Microsoft introduced more “personalized search results” in Bing using Facebook’s data, a move that looks an awful lot like the social network-enhanced search results Google announced in January.
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Twitter’s lawyers are taking a long, hard look at Google’s new social search features, and they don’t like what they see.
With Google’s new mode of searching, social media results powered by Google+ show up among regularly ranked links and …
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Twitter is not happy with Google‘s new social search features. So unhappy, in fact, that the company is calling it a “bad day for the Internet” and media overall.
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Well, it’s finally happened. Google web search has been Google-Plus-ified.
Today, Google is bringing some specific new features to Google web search, its flagship and most widely used product. In addition to the usual assortment of links, pictures, news items …
Microsoft’s anticipated social network So.cl has arrived, but don’t expect it to be the Google+ or Facebook challenger it was widely rumored to be — at least not yet.
So.cl, pronounced social, is being billed as a site for student …
After months of speculation about Google building something to challenge Facebook, the search giant has finally unveiled its social product +1. So what is +1? Apparently, it’s Google’s take on the Facebook Like button.
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