SiliconFilter
siliconfilter.com · Group blog · on HN since 2011
SiliconFilter is a tech news blog covering Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and web industry stories.
What HN saysCommenters link it for the Facebook data request guide in Europe and for coverage of Google's claims that Bing copied its search results.
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- 1Google Engineer: Google+ Is a Knee-Jerk Reaction2 people · 8 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Google+ vs. Twitter: Planned Community vs. Organic Growth2 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3Getting Facebook to Give You All Your Data is Easy (in Europe)2 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 4IE6 Usage Falls to Under 1% in U.S.1 people · 192 points · first shared 2012 · 87 comments on HN
- 5Why Twitter Should be Very Worried about Google+1 people · 86 points · first shared 2011 · 53 comments on HN
- 6Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors1 people · 81 points · first shared 2011 · 100 comments on HN
- 7Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine1 people · 74 points · first shared 2011 · 75 comments on HN
- 8Kevin Rose: We Made Lots of Hiring Mistakes at Digg1 people · 61 points · first shared 2011 · 83 comments on HN
- 9Bing: What’s More Evil Than Satan Himself? 10^1001 people · 56 points · first shared 2011 · 15 comments on HN
- 10Dartium: Google’s New Dart Programming Language Comes to Chromium1 people · 46 points · first shared 2012 · 49 comments on HN
- 11A simple tool to check if Lulzsec has leaked your personal data1 people · 34 points · first shared 2011 · 21 comments on HN
- 12Report: The Rumors of Google+’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated1 people · 27 points · first shared 2011 · 4 comments on HN
- 13Google: Read/Write API for Google+ Not Coming Anytime Soon1 people · 20 points · first shared 2012 · 8 comments on HN
- 14The New Windows 8 UI: Trying to be Too Many Things to Too Many Devices?1 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 10 comments on HN
- 15Microsoft launches Bing Booster program for startups that want to use Bing1 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
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mtrimpe · 2013-01-04
You can also consider filing a request to get one of those CDs with all data on file about you sent to you (See http://siliconfilter.com/getting-facebook-to-give-you-all-your-data-is…
I'm not sure if it includes images but if Facebook didn't actually delete the images you might have a shot, especially if you mention you just want the images restored which might be easier for them to do than make your custom CD.
Also; if you want to be a good techie teach your friends the following:
- in the event of serious life-shattering data-loss
- do as hard a power-down of your computer as soon as possible
- and hand it over to a data-recovery company or the smartest geek you know
It might cost you a pretty penny, but at least you have a pretty good chance of recovering your data.
BrendanEich · 2021-03-04
From https://www.siliconfilter.com/hiybbprqag-google-claims-bing-is-copying… it seems Google engineers laid a trap by using IE with Bing Toolbar and Bing Search Suggestions enabled. Not clear what was gathering the data, but this article doesn't say whether the Google engineers clicked on the bogus-keyword's result link. If they did, then clickstream as you say. If they didn't, something in the IE+Bing mix scraped links from whole Google results pages.
barista · 2012-07-13
hmmmm. Bing added this feature way before Google did and not even a single mention in the article... http://siliconfilter.com/bing-maps-for-mobile-goes-indoors-with-mall-a…