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January 30, 2013 04:38 pm GMT

Wonder No More. Yandex Pulls Social Discovery App After Facebook Closes Door On Graph API Use + Says Its A Competing Search Engine

Facebook Wonder FixedSome closure on the story of how Yandex -- the Russian search giant -- built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data, and then found Facebook blocking its service within hours of launching. Today Yandex said that after discussions with the social network, Facebook has finally, terminally said that the app violates its Platform Policies, specifically on the point of Wonder being a competing search engine. Facebook will not reinstate the ability to use Facebook's Graph API, so as a result, Yandex is planning to pulll the app from the app store and put it on hold for now.

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