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With friends like these who needs enemies

By Kevin May | November 15, 2010

So as the FairSearch campaign prepares to turn the entire world against Google, its members will be delighted to learn Mountain View is still trying to do no evil. Read More

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Google Instant Previews - the web version of Does My Bum Look Big In This?

By Kevin May | November 12, 2010

Just four weeks ago Google began testing previews of web pages in search results - an intriguing move, but one which made sense after the launch of Google Instant. Read More

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TripSwarm startup lasts all of a few weeks

By Kevin May | November 8, 2010

Strange happenings at fledgling startup TripSwarm with news that at least one of the co-founders has quit, citing creative differences and saturation of the market. Read More

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Everbread announces trio of clients for Haystack product

By Kevin May | November 5, 2010

Ever since Google surprised many and named flight search technology startup Everbread as part of the infamous travel ecosystem, the company has attracted lots of attention. Read More

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How Google Place Search will impact on hotels and others in travel

By Viewpoints | November 2, 2010

Local search marketing is gaining momentum among hoteliers – and for good reason. Read More

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TLabs Showcase - TripSwarm

By Kevin May | October 28, 2010

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based trip planner and flight search site TripSwarm. Read More

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Organic search results for travel almost dead on Google

By Kevin May | October 28, 2010

Google announced yesterday an upgrade to its search functionality, a programme of improvements being rolled out around the world to ramp up place search. Read More

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Google-ITA Software deal: Who is missing from the FairSearch plot?

By Kevin May | October 27, 2010

Those behind the FairSearch anti-Google movement will clearly have been delighted with the acres of coverage the launch received yesterday. Read More

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Google-ITA Software deal: Anti-deal consortium goes public

By Kevin May | October 25, 2010

Expedia, Kayak, Sabre Holdings and Farelogix have unveiled the public face to their opposition of the Google-ITA Software deal with the launch of FairSearch.org. Read More

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Google internal email the travel industry would hate to see

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | October 20, 2010

I was thinking what if I ran the Troogleplex - Google’s burgeoning travel space. Would a memo to staff like this be leaked to a potentially terrified industry... Read More

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Why Google buying a consumer travel site is not a mad idea

By Alex Bainbridge | October 13, 2010

These rumours about Google supposedly buying Opodo are great fun. Unlikely, but fun. Read More

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Skyscanner takes covers off ski trip planning experiment

By Kevin May | October 12, 2010

Interesting departure for metasearch site Skyscanner with news that its newly formed labs team have developed a trip planning service for ski holidays. Read More

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Windows Phone 7 brings voice activated flight status

By Kevin May | October 11, 2010

Microsoft is pushing hard with the apparent gazillions of new features on the Windows Phone 7 released today - but little mention so far of one neat piece of functionality. Read More

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Google slaps Google Bypass with injunction over trademark

By Kevin May | October 6, 2010

OnHolidayGroup was breathing a sigh of relief a little prematurely over its cheekily titled Google Bypass project - Big G has ordered it stop using the name immediately. Read More