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I find it interesting that Google and Facebook got their start by getting data from other sites and then presenting it in a new way. Search engines and social n
by va_coder 16y ago
I find it interesting that Google and Facebook got their start by getting data from other sites and then presenting it in a new way. Search engines and social networks don't start from nothing. Now that other people are grabbing their data to present it in new ways (like they once did or still do) what will be their response?
- larrik 16y agoIs this true? I never heard of Facebook being seeded with other site's data. I also don't see how Google could have even made use of a raw dump of any other site's data at the time. They would need to crawl the sites anyway to fill out their PageRank data. Do you have a citation that says differently?
- va_coder 16y agoAs far as facebook: No one would have heard of facebook if not for facemash As far as Google: One person's raw dump of data is someone else's valueable copyrighted material. I could argue grabbing Google "raw dump" of bytes and presenting it my way is unique and original. It's not black and white as you seem to think.