Google rebuff to TripIt, WorldMate and TripCase with new reservations search tool
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TripIt, WorldMate and GateGuru focus on their itinerary management and flight-tracking specialties, but Google has given them all something to think about with its new search service for flight, hotel and restaurant reservations.
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Google just delivered a wake-up call to itinerary management services such as TripIt, WorldMate and TripCase, and flight-tracking apps like FlightTrack and GateGuru, by testing a feature that searches Gmail accounts for flight reservations and flight-status updates, and then delivers them in personalized Google search results.
The Google experiment raises a ton of issues, including questions about intellectual property, privacy and security, but more on that below.
Google detailed its search experiment here, indicating that when all of its features are rolled out, Gmail users will be able to use Google search to find their present and past flight reservations and flight-status updates,
