Articles tagged “google”

The irony of Expedia and Priceline’s bloated ad and search campaigns is that they’re bumping up the bottom line of a direct competitor, Google.

Smart move from Google to show off its capabilities and educate on possible future of advertising and branded content, but use of Google+ login? Ugh.

This is Google Maps as the center of your local travel needs, though still needs to catch up with similar much more advanced functionalities on Google Maps on Android.

Our fave, besides the flight information: the available outlets at the gate. Metadata would become king in this scenario.

The design and choices in it would be be on the key factors in user adoption for Google Glass. That and the price, of course.

The glass and its use case compresses all of our travel communication and gadget needs in one, using the glass UI. Remains to be seen if costs come down, and people are willing to sport the same robot-glasses look.

This is manna from heaven for tech blogs, if they want to milk this.

A number of startups are trying to make flight comparison easier with pinning and saving, but Google Flight Search's update is a good model for a seamless regional search.

It's likely the search giant will add Frommer's content into the mix once it gets normalized, if it hasn't already under Zagat branding.

FairSearch member Foundem scrapped its flight, hotel and car rental services last March in a scrape with Google over its Panda penalties. The FTC isn't spanking Google, but Foundem seeks compensation for Google's alleged "anti-competitive" behavior.