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Think with Google debuts a travel dashboard to help US marketers

By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015

Today Google's marketing research arm, Think with Google, unveiled its Travel Dashboard -- a free online tool that highlights recent and year-over-year trends based on Google data across the car renta Read More

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This Air France ad is the top travel brand video of 2015, so far, says Google

By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015

Congratulations (or, we should say, félicitations ) to Air France for having created an advertisement that has been more popular than any other video from any other travel company so far in 2015, acco Read More

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Back to basics - ten tips for travel search marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | August 21, 2015

Okay, so we all know that both leisure and business travellers use the web for researching travel plans. And that, therefore, search marketing plays (and still plays, despite the supposed rise of s Read More

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How the Google network infrastructure has evolved

By PhocusWire | August 19, 2015

Google has announced that it wants to fix your home wifi, but internally, it has long been working on far more complex networking issues. Read More

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Can Amazon, Uber or Google employees still have a life?

By PhocusWire | August 19, 2015

A focus on data to wring out the most possible efficiency from employees. An ulcer-inducing work pace. Read More

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Hoteliers - worried about instant bookings? Learn from Amazon!

By Viewpoints | August 11, 2015

Over the past few weeks there has been a major shift in the travel industry that has the potential to significantly impact booking revenue for hospitality organizations. NB This is a guest article Read More

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If Twitter was operated by Google

By PhocusWire | August 5, 2015

Twitter should be a Google company. Okay, many people have said this before. Read More

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A post-mortem on the demise of Google Plus

By PhocusWire | August 4, 2015

Create a social network or risk everything - the original internal pitch to fellow employees around the Googleplex. Read More

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In a test, Google Now trials hotel price drop alerts

By Sean O'Neil | August 2, 2015

In a test, Google has prototyped a service that alerts Android users about drops in a hotel rate in the day or so after a reservation is made. In the test, the alerts were provided via the company' Read More

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Expedia likes Google instant book, HomeAway, and Chinese affiliate sales

By Sean O'Neil | July 31, 2015

Expedia Inc has released its second quarter earnings. (Here are the topline financial numbers.) CEO Dara Khosrowshahi held a conference call with investors. Below are the highlights of what he sai Read More

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Business travellers more connected to ecommerce than general population

By Kevin May | July 30, 2015

Research and analysis from Adara has uncovered some interesting (and perhaps surprising) digital trends surrounding the average business traveller. The study of 1,200 travellers in the US and UK, u Read More

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Skyscanner tests bookings on air tickets, claims huge jump in conversions

By Kevin May | July 29, 2015

The trend to give users the chance to make bookings on metasearch engines continues - with Skyscanner confirming it has joined the fray in recent months. The UK-based travel search engine will now Read More

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Secret Escapes raises $60 million from Google Ventures and others

By Kevin May | July 25, 2015

Huge round in the bank for flash hotel sale site Secret Escapes - securing $60 million from a list of venture capital heavyweights. The Series C investment brings the total amount raised so far by Read More

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Device habits of travellers [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | July 14, 2015

Texting, instant messages and browsing the internet are the three most popular activities performed on a mobile device by travellers when overseas. Data captured via a survey of 4,250 adults in the Read More

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Google quietly adds instant booking for hotels, copying TripAdvisor

By Sean O'Neil | July 9, 2015

For the first time, Google users can book a hotel room without ever leaving the search giant's familiar desktop interface. The addition of assisted booking to Google.com/hotels, the search giant's Read More

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