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Google Maps adds hotel search and pricing, panic and confusion assured
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Google Maps adds hotel search and pricing, panic and confusion assured
By Kevin May | March 23, 2010
Google launched an experiment through its mapping division last night to place search and price functionality against hotel listings on Google Maps - implications of which could be far-ranging. Read More
ITA Software on future of flight search, res system, IPO prospects
By Dennis Schaal | March 17, 2010
ITA Software is working with "three or four" North American and European airlines which are experimenting with offering optional services in consumers' initial air search -- even before they select a... Read More
UpTake heads down ultimate travel content aggregation route
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UpTake heads down ultimate travel content aggregation route
By Kevin May | March 17, 2010
Hotel metasearch site UpTake is embarking on what it claims is a web-first to aggregate not only travel information from suppliers but also bloggers around the world. Read More
Google kaboom -- disruption coming from search, video, mobile, cloud
By Dennis Schaal | March 10, 2010
Dennis Woodside has some simple advice for travel marketers who will have to try to cope with the coming disruption -- "dog-fooding." Read More
Google extends Comparison Ads drive, hints that travel is in its sights
By Kevin May | February 25, 2010
In a move likely to reignite the ongoing debate about Google's influence over the travel industry, engineers have the sector back on their radars as they launch another AdWords Comparison Ads trial. Read More
Google takes Kayak by surprise, named as key competitor
By Kevin May | February 14, 2010
Some folk in Connecticut, US, will be scratching their heads as feverishly as they are digging their way through the snow after Google named the metasearch firm Kayak on its list of competitors. Read More
Yahoo patents new mobile ad technology to work out where the user is travelling
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Yahoo patents new mobile ad technology to work out where the user is travelling
By Kevin May | February 5, 2010
There is so much focus on Google and Apple in the mobile phone market that it may come as a surprise to hear that Yahoo is the tech firm knocking on the door of the patent office. Read More
Industrial Relations 2.0 - Unions turns to Twitter in fight against British Airways
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Industrial Relations 2.0 - Unions turns to Twitter in fight against British Airways
By Kevin May | January 26, 2010
Company-employee disputes are not like they used to be - if the latest spat between British Airways and a union representing cabin crews are anything to go by. The long-running face-off between BA and... Read More
TripAdvisor hoping for detente over Google-China Cold War
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TripAdvisor hoping for detente over Google-China Cold War
By Kevin May | January 18, 2010
User review giant TripAdvisor will have a few worries on its mind if Google follows through on its threat to pull out of China following a row over cyber attacks on government protestors. Tnooz has... Read More
Can Google end 170 years of frustration between western companies and China?
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Can Google end 170 years of frustration between western companies and China?
By Siew Hoon Yeoh | January 13, 2010
Well, the threat by Google that it may cease operations in China has certainly set tongues wagging in the east. Google announced that it would cease censoring results of its Google.cn search engine,... Read More
The irony of a Google exit from China - travel search would be left with one dominant player
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The irony of a Google exit from China - travel search would be left with one dominant player
By Kevin May | January 13, 2010
News that Google is considering pulling out of the fastest growing consumer market on the planet would leave the Chinese domestic internet with one powerful search engine for travel products. The search... Read More
Will travel firms take the French approach over untamed Google Suggest tool?
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Will travel firms take the French approach over untamed Google Suggest tool?
By Kevin May | January 7, 2010
The result of a defamation case in Paris, France, has shed light on the lengths companies will go to if search engines are providing users with incorrect or damaging information. The case, involving the... Read More
Many more travel planning websites planned for 2010
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Many more travel planning websites planned for 2010
By Dennis Schaal | December 24, 2009
This is not a 2010 prediction, but a certainty: Many more travel planning, research and metasearch websites are planned for 2010. This crowded field promises to get more crowded. For example,... Read More
Bing's growing and Yahoo's slowing in search share
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Bing's growing and Yahoo's slowing in search share
By Dennis Schaal | December 17, 2009
One month does not a search engine make. But it's clear from the comScore's U.S. search rankings in November that Microsoft's Bing search engine is making market share gains, and Yahoo's share of... Read More
Google shuns opportunity for travel with Comparison Ads - for the time being
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Google shuns opportunity for travel with Comparison Ads - for the time being
By Kevin May | December 9, 2009
Google says it has no plans to extend its recently launched Comparison Ads project to include products from the travel vertical. The confirmation comes during a busy week for Google as it rolls out the... Read More
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