Facebook Threatened By Google To Block Data Flow

Google Inc made a huge announcement, this Friday, that it will stop giving access to sites like Facebook and other websites to use its users' information, highlighting an a sense of sensitive mistrust between the two Internet giants. 

Google declared openly that it will not let other services automatically import its users' email contact data for their own purposes anymore, until and unless the information flows both ways. It majorly accused Facebook in particular of ‘siphoning up’ Google contact data, without allowing for the automatic import and export of Facebook users' information, while Google has allowed that since always. 

It is not unnoticed that Facebook has more than 500 million users, yet it relies on email services such as Google's Gmail to help find new users find friends already on  Facebook. New users are immediately asked to import their Gmail contact list into the social network service; this has helped Facebook spread its users across the globe.

Furthermore, Google quoted in exact words, that websites such as Facebook "leave users in a data dead end." Not surprisingly Facebook did not immediately provide any comment on the issue raised. However, Google claims that this effort is raised as an attempt to protect its users' ability to retain control of their personal data on the Internet.

Google justifies it statement by saying, while Google makes it easy for other Web services to import a user's contact data automatically, Facebook was not doing anything in return. Google declared that its users will still be able to manually download their contacts "an open, machine-readable format" which can then be imported into any Web service later on. It is not unnoticed that last month, Facebook has announced a deal with Microsoft Corp. allowing Facebook’s data, such as Web pages, to appear within Microsoft’s search results. 

        Whereas, on the other hand, analysts interpret that this move has underscored the battle between Google, the world's largest search engine, and Facebook, the dominant Internet social network.