Skift Take
With parent company Alphabet generating $79 billion in revenue in the first half of 2020, Google is relentlessly rolling out new travel products. Not to mention, it is dictating content-licensing and advertising terms to cash-strapped partners while a pandemic rages. Enough said.
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While there has been much discussion about Google taking an inflexible approach toward travel companies’ pandemic-driven past-due bills, and many figured out a way to pay them, Google actually cut off and banned advertisements from a well-known online travel company.
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