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Google launches "Sign-In with Google+" option - 101 guide for travel companies to interactive posts
By Karthick Prabu
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March 7, 2013
Google has been known as a web search company for aeons. Now, Google is literally into everything on the web, including a growing penetration into the travel vertical.
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Case study: Travel Republic hits 1 million followers on Google+, a UK agency first
By Sean O'Neil
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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.
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Google Glass - the Next Big Thing in the travel industry?
By Karthick Prabu
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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...
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The death of SEO and why keywords are possibly being removed to push paid traffic
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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.
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Google winding down B2B division at Frommers, travel sites need to find new content supplier
By Kevin May
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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.
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Google winding down B2B division at Frommers, travel sites need to find new content supplier
By Kevin May
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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.
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Google updates Hotel Finder with date, neighborhood, brand, and travel time search
By Sean O'Neil
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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."
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Preparing for life after desktop computers [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May
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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?
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Behold, the center of the Googleverse: It's all coming together for Ye Olde Small Business
By Nick Vivion
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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...
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Where Google Travel is heading, according to one of its employees
By Sean O'Neil
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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...
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Google and Frommers, six months on - never about brand or books, just look at the bigger picture
By Kevin May
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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.
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Google and Frommers, six months on - never about brand or books, just look at the bigger picture
By Kevin May
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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.
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Local intent and Graph Search on Facebook - joy or not for hotels?
By Viewpoints
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January 22, 2013
It seems that Facebook’s new Graph Search could be poised to be a true threat to Google, Yelp and Foursquare.
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Apple iTravel: So what happened to that?
By Glenn Gruber
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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.
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From the Tnooz archive - Top-level domains (2012) and Google posters (2011)
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January 16, 2013
Rolling back the years...
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