FullContact API gives marketing superpowers to growth hackers
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The things that caused fury (and rightly so) the other day were a handful of tracking systems that use a single cookie across multiple sites (some with contact info) to break anonymity for the any site in the network. So the user think they're anonymous, but they are in fact personally identifiable to the site owner.
BIG difference.
A useful tool to be sure, companies should just be careful how they use it.
One big flaw is that you can't provide multiple sources of data as the basis of a search. Eg no phone AND email, only o ne at a time.
It's an API. You could run two separate calls and then merge, or run the excel macro with two separate files and merge. We plan to have multiple queries in the future.
Sorry to hear that. Out of curiosity, do you remember which response code you were getting? If it was a 202, it indicates that we've accepted your query, but are processing (i.e., going out and looking for the data). If you try again in 5 minutes, you'll normally see a lot more 200's.
(Only reason I ask is we see a lot of confusion over 202's - people often think of them as errors, instead of meaning 'ACCEPTED - PROCESSING'.)
Regardless, if you have a few thousand queries and would like to send us a sample, we're always happy to run a match test and show you what you'd get back (obviously, a larger sample size gives you a better idea of results at scale).