Facebook Yanks Data From Yandex's Mobile App, A Graph Search Competitor
Thursday, Russian search engine Yandex released a mobile application, Wonder, that was something like Facebook's graph search mixed with Siri. From an iPhone or iPod Touch, someone could ask Wonder, "What sushi restaurants do my friends like in San Francisco?" and it would come up with a list, based on their Facebook friends' likes and check-ins. A few hours after the app went live, Facebook pulled its data from Wonder.
Thursday, Russian search engine Yandex released a mobile application, Wonder, that was something like Facebook’s graph search mixed with Siri. From an iPhone or iPod Touch, someone could ask Wonder, “What sushi restaurants do my friends like in San Francisco?” and it would come up with a list, based on their Facebook friends’ likes and check-ins. A few hours after the app went live, Facebook pulled its data from Wonder.
Yandex tried to skirt around legal trouble from Facebook by classifying Wonder more as a personal assistant, like Apple’s Siri, than as a competitor to graph search.
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