Google and Facebook have not been in each others good books lately, with petty remarks such as Mark Zuckerberg’s criticims of their Android app, blaming it on Google, and various rumoured partnering to help one battle the another, but not much direct hostile action has been made between the companies as of yet.
But now Google has taken action against Facebook, denying them access to the Google Contacts API, which will further part Gmail users from Facebook. Google changed some of its Terms of Service revolving around the contacts API, so that sites which use the contacts API will have to also share that data with Google themselves. Because Facebook doesn’t do this when they use the contacts API, it will mean that the friend-finder feature which uses E-mails will not work for Gmail users.
However, Facebook has not allowed users to export their contact information in the past (which is reasonable), and although there has been a new Facebook Data Download feature which was released recently, it only shows contact names, not any other kind of information. These kind of petty actions between Facebook and Google are likely to not end with this, and in the end the only people who are going to be effected negatively by their actions are the people who use their services.
Via: Electric Pig
2 thoughts on “Google Takes Action Against Facebook: Locks Them Out Of Gmail”
This is a silly move… Won’t have any effect of Facebook and will just make life a little harder on us users.