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Jizo aims to take travel search to the next level in Russia

By Kevin May | July 28, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Russia-based Jizo, a new travel metasearch service with a twist on the user experience. Read More

FairSearch-commissioned study: Google may have negative economic impact

By Dennis Schaal | July 27, 2011

A study commissioned for FairSearch.org concludes that Google's net impact on the U.S. economy may be "negative" because of the search engine's "dominance and market power." Read More

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Are we witnessing the death of the natural search ecosystem in travel?

By Viewpoints | July 26, 2011

Google Panda, a large update to the search algorithm released five months ago, is supposed to be about surfacing quality and original websites. Read More

Hipmunk dismisses Google, Kayak and profits as launch anniversary approaches

By Dennis Schaal | July 25, 2011

With the prospect of Google soon launching a flight-search product, Hipmunk is expressing its immunity from competitive swirls. Read More

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Best of Tnooz This Week - Review killer, Flash DNA, Tricky disruption

By PhocusWire | July 24, 2011

What were the best articles on Tnooz this week? Read More

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Appi Holidays wants to revolutionise mobile travel search

By Kevin May | July 22, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based Appi Holidays, a mobile-based travel search engine. Read More

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Google kills web reviews for hotels on Maps and Places

By Kevin May | July 22, 2011

Swift and decisive move by Google last night as it axed all third party reviews appearing against hotels on Google Maps and Google Places. Read More

Kayak to Google: Bring it on

By Dennis Schaal | July 21, 2011

With Google believed to be fine-tuning its ITA Software-powered flight search product, Kayak will have to compete, whether or not it executes an IPO. Read More

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Corporate travel buyers in the dark over customer use of mobiles

By Kevin May | July 21, 2011

Interesting survey from the Institute of Travel & Meetings indicating that business travel buyers have almost no say over the mobile behaviour of their clients. Read More

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How travel became a barometer for wider mobile adoption

By Viewpoints | July 20, 2011

The travel industry has found itself as the benchmark for mobile, with early adopters among business travelers driving the overall market forward for other verticals. Read More

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Google entering travel could be nothing to worry about after all

By Viewpoints | July 19, 2011

Over the last several weeks we've seen continued hype on the output of the Google acquisition of ITA Software. Read More

Anti-Google Travel group FairSearch expands to launch Searchville

By Kevin May | July 19, 2011

The collection of travel companies that came together to oppose the Google acquisition of ITA Software arguably lost the battle, but are now hoping to win the war. Read More

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European Commission begins review of GDS Code, realpolitik expected

By Kevin May | July 15, 2011

Regulators are to review the Code of Conduct overseeing global distribution systems in Europe - a process which could eventually see fundamental changes being made to reflect the new marketplace. Read More

Google sees key travel product executive switch to Facebook

By Kevin May | July 12, 2011

Tom Stocky, the man credited with some of Google's early forays into enhancing its travel search capability, has ended over six years at the company and moved to Facebook. Read More

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The $700M question: How will Google take travel search global?

By Kevin May | July 6, 2011

Almost 12 months to the day, Google finally announced what many had been anticipating for years: the search giant was getting into travel in a major way. Read More

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