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cantbecool
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Ark (YC W12) launches a modern people search engin...
What if Google and Facebook block access to their APIs? This seems like a possibility if Ark gains traction.
chrisaycock
on March 26, 2012
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That's a possibility, but the article states that
Ark used its Y Combinator connections to get full approval from Facebook to dredge its Graph API
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jordhy
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They can use the Common Crawl, LinkedIn's API, Twitter's or other APIs. Any single data supplier withdrawal won't disrupt their business model.
epikur
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If it gained traction, wouldn't a Google or Facebook acquisition be even more of a possibility?
moylan
on March 26, 2012
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and which ever one loses the acquisition bid will block the winner
benologist
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That's the winner's problem.
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