Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page appeared on "Charlie Rose" Monday, and it was obvious something has been bothering him: Facebook.
After announcing his excitement overChrome becoming the most used web browser in the world, Page spoke about thechallenge of working with Facebook. According to Page, while Google has been fairly open about sharing its data with Facebook, the social network has not been reciprocating.
"It's been unfortunate that Facebook has been pretty closed with their data," Page told Rose. "In general, we'd like to see content on the Internet being made more open."
Page described a particular issue Google has had with Facebook over letting users transfer their contacts across the two company's services:
From a user’s perspective, you say I’m joining Facebook. I want my contacts. In Google, we said, fine. You can get them from Google. And the issue we had is that then Facebook said, no, Google, you can’t do the reverse. And so we just said, well, users don’t understand what they’re doing. They’re putting data in, and they don’t understand they can’t take it out. So we said, well, we’ll only participate with people who have reciprocity. And we’re still waiting.