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Travelers’ Hotel Choices: No Choice At All

2014-05-12 by Phil Butler

When Google acquired ITA flight software a couple of years back, a group of competitors went ballistic warning of unfair practices by the Internet search and ad giant. Most people back then blew off what FairSearch was contending, this author included. As it turns out, a half dozen court cases won and a lot of water under the hotel search bridge, and potential guests really have no choice at all. Google has rigged the hotel booking game into an ad recommendation one.

Tags: BIng, Bing travel, booking hotels, Expedia, FairSearch, Google, Google hotel finder, hotels, ITA, TripAdvisor

Bing Travel Down Another Notch On Farecast Death [Or Is It?]

2014-04-11 by Phil Butler

Is Bing bringing on Bing Travel the app?

Bing, the only search entity out there that stood a chance of competing with Google, has sent to the dead pool Farecast. What was one of Bing’s most interesting tools is another casualty of what some experts say is an apathetic Microsoft when it comes to search.

Tags: BIng, Bing travel, Farecast, Microsoft, Microsoft search, MyCityWay

WIHP’s 2014 Marketing Bucket List

2014-01-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

WIHP at ITB Berlin

2014 brings with a new year great new possibilities in every industry. Travel not being the least of these, World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP) just compiled a Slideshare bucket list of benchmark hotel and marketing items not to overlook. This will be one of those years technology provides a fast forward effect for competitiveness, and […]

Tags: BIng, guest experience, hotel marketing, hotels, marketing, Photosynth, WIHP

US Government Approves Google-ITA Deal

2011-04-11 by Aleksandr Shatskih

US Department of Justice

The Department of Justice has approved a $700 million deal that will see Google acquire ITA Software, a travel technology company.  The DoJ released a detailed ruling outlining the approval, along with some restrictions. As part of the deal, Google must license QPX software from ITA to airfare websites under “commercially reasonable terms”, continue to […]

Tags: air fares, airfare websites, BIng, Department of Justice, DoJ, Google, InstaSearch, ITA, QPX software, travel search engine, U.S.

Bing-Kayak: Travel Search or Dumb Meets Dumber?

2011-03-06 by Phil Butler

Barney Pell up the Amazon in 2008

The still raging war for online travel supremacy continues with news from Microsoft and Kayak. The pending sale of ITA to Google has spurred some fairly ridiculous allegiances and deals, not the least of which is the latest Bing “slash” Kayak pairing. Let’s face it, Microsoft has already spent two king’s ransoms trying to beat Google, and now this?

Tags: Barney Pell, Bill Gates, BIng, Bing travel, Google, Google Travel, ITA, ITA software, Kayak, Microsoft, online travel, OTA, Powermouse, search engines, travel conversions, travel search, travel wars

US Airways Sabre Deal Calms Travel War Waters

2011-03-01 by Phil Butler

Cartoon travel help Bing

In airline travel news, US Airways just announced the signing of a multi year contract for full content distribution and merchandising with Sabre Travel Network. This latest news, pertinent to the ongoing wars between the various online agents and service providers, is at least a positive sign for global distribution players.

Tags: add ons, Air New Zealand, airline tickets, airline travel, Amadeus, ancillary services, BIng, British Airways, Delta-Northwest, GDS, Google Travel, Greg Webb, Microsoft, online travel, OTA's, Porter Airlines, Qantas, Sabre GDS, Sabre holdings, United Airlines, US Airways, Virgin America, WestJet, world airlines

Online Travel Warfare To End Soon

2011-02-19 by Phil Butler

Google evil versus collective evil

The war in online travel over basically who gets what & when continues this week with Delta Airlines snatching seats from Rick Seaney’s FareCompare, American Airlines going hog wild trying to engage on their own, and Google outlining (see Matt Cutts video below) how they can manually crucify websites for SPAM. Meanwhile travelers just want some price break justice.

Tags: air fares, American Airlines, BIng, Expedia, FaceCompare, Google, Google algorithms, ITA, Kayak, Matt Cutts, Microsoft, MS Travel, online bookings, Orbitz, Rick Seaney, social web, SPAM, Tim O'Reilly, TripAdvisor, Web 2.0, web transparency

Cease Fire Called In Online Travel Wars

2011-02-01 by Phil Butler

Google Hotpot

The ceasefire between American Airlines and GDS giant Sabre signals an “all quiet” moment on the front lines of the online travel wars we have been covering. The announcement that the two companies would attempt to resolve their differences out of court, at least until June 1st, calmed the churning business cauldron for online travel for some.

Tags: American Airlines, BIng, Bing travel, Business Travel Coalition, Everything PR News, FairSearch, GDS, Google, Google Android, Google Places, Google Travel, Google Webmaster Guidlines, Hotpot, ITA, Justice Department, Kevin P. Mitchell, Microsoft, online travel, Sabre, SPAM filter, Tavis Hampton, travel supremecy

Justice Department Poised to Nix Google Deal

2011-01-15 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks to the Antitrust Division.

The Justice Department stands poised to nix Google’s acquisition of ITA proprietary software as FairSearch and other entities press the issue. Is Google becoming a monopoly? This is the overriding question on the minds of consumers, but what is on the government’s mind, this is what counts. With American Airlines’ recent ITA deal, exactly how will the Justice Department deal with the immense pressures being leveled? This online travel war is a far bigger confrontation than many realize.

Tags: American Airlines, antitrust, Argophilia Travel, BIng, Bloomberg, Eric Schmidt, Expedia, Fairsearch.org, Google, Internet companies, ITA software, Justice Department, Kayak, monopoly, online travel, OTA's, travel market

Gunfight At the Google Travel Corral

2010-12-05 by Phil Butler

Google holds all the cards

Recent developments in online travel highlight the immense power the Internet has on traditional structures. Google’s ITA software deal is now the subject or power strokes in Washington. As Microsoft, Kayak, and Sabre vie for Senatorial support, Obama’s Attorney General select focus scrutiny on the deal.

Tags: Anti-trust, BIng, Christine A. Varney, Google, ITA, Justice Department, Kayak, Microsoft, President Obama, Sabre, Senator Herb Kohl




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