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Case study: Travel Republic hits 1 million followers on Google+, a UK agency first

By Sean O'Neil | March 5, 2013

Travel Republic, the UK online travel agency, has hit a social media milestone in attracting 1,021,907 followers on Google in less than a year. Read More

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Google Glass - the Next Big Thing in the travel industry?

By Karthick Prabu | February 22, 2013

Google's suite of web and mobile-based services are continuing their penetration into travel industry. But with the launch of Glass, Google's most hi-tech product yet, the ramifications for the sector... Read More

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The death of SEO and why keywords are possibly being removed to push paid traffic

By Viewpoints | February 12, 2013

Here is a piece of so-called Inside Baseball analysis that is slowly affecting large swathes of the travel industry, in particular hotels. Read More

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Google winding down B2B division at Frommers, travel sites need to find new content supplier

By Kevin May | February 12, 2013

One area of the Frommer's business that got little mention during the acquisition by Google last summer was the travel content service for other brands. Read More

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Google winding down B2B division at Frommers, travel sites need to find new content supplier

By Kevin May | February 12, 2013

One area of the Frommer's business that got little mention during the acquisition by Google last summer was the travel content service for other brands. Read More

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Google updates Hotel Finder with date, neighborhood, brand, and travel time search

By Sean O'Neil | February 7, 2013

Google has updated its Hotel Finder tool to invite users to narrow their searches by neighborhood and time period, plus its first unique innovation in metasearch: "time-based search." Read More

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Preparing for life after desktop computers [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | February 5, 2013

We've all been hearing in travel about the "year of the mobile" for, well, years - but now that such predictions have come to fruition, what does it mean for travel websites? Read More

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Behold, the center of the Googleverse: It's all coming together for Ye Olde Small Business

By Nick Vivion | February 4, 2013

Google has been on a steady march towards complete digital domination, acquiring companies that allow Google to burrow itself into pretty much everything and carving out a lucrative and inescapable... Read More

Where Google Travel is heading, according to one of its employees

By Sean O'Neil | January 31, 2013

Yesterday, Google updated its Flight Search. To put things in context, James van Thiel, the industry leader for Google's Netherlands Travel team, talks about integrating search with metasearch and other... Read More

Google and Frommers, six months on - never about brand or books, just look at the bigger picture

By Kevin May | January 30, 2013

For some, Google's acquisition of Frommer's in August last year triggered yet another sharp intake of breath that the Mountain View search company was wading further in on the travel sector. Read More

Google and Frommers, six months on - never about brand or books, just look at the bigger picture

By Kevin May | January 30, 2013

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Local intent and Graph Search on Facebook - joy or not for hotels?

By Viewpoints | January 22, 2013

It seems that Facebook’s new Graph Search could be poised to be a true threat to Google, Yelp and Foursquare. Read More

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Apple iTravel: So what happened to that?

By Glenn Gruber | January 16, 2013

It was almost three years ago that we all got first sight of what Apple might have in mind if it wanted to launch an assault on the travel industry. Read More