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Can we de-commoditize air travel once and for all?
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Can we de-commoditize air travel once and for all?
By Evan Konwiser | October 20, 2011
Why is air travel such a commodity? After all, it’s often one of the most durable memories of a trip. Read More
Google extends Hotel Finder tool beyond US destinations
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Google extends Hotel Finder tool beyond US destinations
By Linda Fox | October 19, 2011
Google's experiment with its Hotel Finder tool for US destinations must be paying off as the search giant has quietly opened it up to include European cities. Read More
Price and location continue to dominate hotel booking, agents rarely in the mix
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Price and location continue to dominate hotel booking, agents rarely in the mix
By Linda Fox | October 17, 2011
A poll from InvisibleHand, the downloadable search widget, shows consumers are overwhelmingly booking hotels based on price and location. Read More
Why we dumped the Google Plus button from the front page of our travel search site
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Why we dumped the Google Plus button from the front page of our travel search site
By Viewpoints | October 13, 2011
It was, unfortunately, bound to happen. PLUS ONE NO MORE. We removed the option to "+1" our front page today. Read More
Six myths of air travel search on the web
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Six myths of air travel search on the web
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | October 6, 2011
Facebook, at a recent travel conference in the US, suggested its role as one of being in the "happiness business". Read More
Roadhop brings social media tips to rail, bus and ship travel search
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Roadhop brings social media tips to rail, bus and ship travel search
By Kevin May | October 5, 2011
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Singapore-based Roadhop, a social media-assisted travel search engine for non-air transportation. Read More
How is Google Flight Search performing so far? Go on, have a guess
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How is Google Flight Search performing so far? Go on, have a guess
By Kevin May | October 5, 2011
An extraordinary amount of interest in September when Google finally launched its long-awaited Flight Search product, five months after securing approval for buying ITA Software. Read More
Kayak IPO stalled by volatile market conditions
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Kayak IPO stalled by volatile market conditions
By Kevin May | September 30, 2011
Plans by Kayak to place the company on the public financial markets in the US are being held up by ongoing worries about the state of the economy. Read More
TLabs Reprise - Adioso 12 months on
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TLabs Reprise - Adioso 12 months on
By Kevin May | September 30, 2011
Adioso is an Australia-based travel search site, which first featured on Tnooz in September 2010. So what happened in the intervening 12 months? Read More
Google wanted simple flight search, but it got all the industry baggage as well
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Google wanted simple flight search, but it got all the industry baggage as well
By Evan Konwiser | September 19, 2011
Appearances can be deceptive - as a few days of mulling over the new Google Flights tool has indicated. Read More
Why travel search startups have nothing to fear from Google
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Why travel search startups have nothing to fear from Google
By Viewpoints | September 15, 2011
Being located 17 hours ahead of Silicon Valley often has you lagging behind on the big news. On waking the other morning at home in Melbourne, Australia, the inbox and Twitters were abuzz - Google had... Read More
Google offered helping hand by Skyscanner to take Flight Search global
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Google offered helping hand by Skyscanner to take Flight Search global
By Kevin May | September 14, 2011
Many of those outside the often inward-looking bubble that is US online travel have always considered the more intriguing part of Google entering travel to be the global play. Read More
FairSearch asks if Google Flight Search partners will be coerced into playing
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FairSearch asks if Google Flight Search partners will be coerced into playing
By Kevin May | September 14, 2011
FairSearch, fierce opponent of Google's acquisition of ITA Software, was quick out of the blocks to pour a healthy dose of scepticism over the search giant's launch of Flight Search. Read More
Google launches Flight Search with booking links to airline sites only
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Google launches Flight Search with booking links to airline sites only
By Dennis Schaal | September 13, 2011
In a stunning move, Google and ITA Software unveiled their long-awaited Flight Search product -- with booking links to airline websites only. Read More
Semantic technology and the travel shopping experience
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Semantic technology and the travel shopping experience
By Viewpoints | September 13, 2011
In a previous Tnooz article I suggested that internet technology had transformed the travel transaction into a self-service, always on, multiple choice, zero friction vending machine. Read More
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