Russian Search Engine Yandex Reaches Deal To Access Facebook’s Firehose Of Public Data

Russian search engine Yandex reached an agreement with Facebook, giving it access to the social network’s “firehose” of public data for the search engine’s users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, other Commonwealth of Independent States countries, and Turkey.

YandexSearchBar650Russian search engine Yandex reached an agreement with Facebook, giving it access to the social network’s “firehose” of public data for the search engine’s users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, other Commonwealth of Independent States countries, and Turkey.

Only content posted as public by users in the countries listed above will be available, including status updates, comments, and other posts, and content that Facebook users designate as private will not be included in search results from Yandex.

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