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Does Expedia show the way to a brilliant search Page Type strategy?

By Viewpoints | August 16, 2012

Every now and then I come across a strategy that is absolutely brilliant and need to share it with the world. I recently found strategy like this from Expedia, while doing competitor research for a... Read More

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Is Google abusing its monopoly in search, or just trying to stay in the travel game?

By Evan Konwiser | August 14, 2012

With this week's announcement of its acquisition of Frommer’s, Google continues to unabashedly move into the content game in travel. Read More

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Is Google abusing its monopoly in search, or just trying to stay in the travel game?

By Evan Konwiser | August 14, 2012

With this week's announcement of its acquisition of Frommer’s, Google continues to unabashedly move into the content game in travel. Read More

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Google buys Frommers, destination content in search just got a little bit more interesting

By Kevin May | August 13, 2012

Google has made another strategic acquisition in the travel space, snapping up guidebook and online destination content publisher Frommers for an undisclosed fee. Read More

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Google buys Frommers, destination content in search just got a little bit more interesting

By Kevin May | August 13, 2012

Google has made another strategic acquisition in the travel space, snapping up guidebook and online destination content publisher Frommers for an undisclosed fee. Read More

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Google introduces flight tracking system in search results, using your booking emails

By Kevin May | August 10, 2012

By special invitation only at the moment, but Google is testing a new service which integrates content from a user's Gmail account when they perform queries in natural search. Read More

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The long and convoluted road to a mobile travel strategy [Part 2 of 2]

By Viewpoints | August 9, 2012

We continue the journey to developing a mobile solution, a process which we began in the first part of the article. Read More

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Travel Tech Scan: Priceline gets pummeled, Google tries CGI: Versailles, Boingo goes shopping, and more

By Sean O'Neil | August 9, 2012

Stocks of Priceline and Orbitz plummeted yesterday because of weaker than expected earnings this year. The top-grossing paid travel app FlightTrack is coming out in a free version today, and there's a... Read More

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The long and convoluted road to a mobile travel strategy [Part 1 of 2]

By Viewpoints | August 7, 2012

Mobile is hot. Not the kind of incidences involving smoking iPhones, but as indicated by the almost daily write ups about the hike of travel related activities on mobile, how tablets are changing... Read More

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Yeah, take note remaining mobile travel naysayers [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | August 1, 2012

A tour operator boss recently disclosed privately that mobile and its impact on the travel industry and consumer behaviour drives him "mad". Read More

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Time for travel companies to say what they mean to Google

By PhocusWire | August 1, 2012

A year ago, Google, Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo announced Schema.org: a taxonomy that would allow webpages to self-describe their content. Read More

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What will Apple do in travel? More questions than answers

By Viewpoints | July 30, 2012

A Google search for "what will Apple do?" returns more than two million results. Journalists, analysts, strategists, fanboys and even the odd civilian want to know. Read More

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Navigating the rising mobile travel tide - Five pointers for the next 12 months

By Viewpoints | July 27, 2012

Putting in place a mobile strategy is no longer a nice-to-have, it is the essential weapon in a fast-paced and competitive sector. Read More

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Busting five myths about mobile applications for hotels

By Viewpoints | July 24, 2012

Over the last few months I have been very disappointed by hearing several hotel Internet marketing companies dismissing mobile applications as part of a hotel’s mobile marketing strategy. Read More