Best of Tnooz This Week – Google joins travel tech, Facebook kills, Expedia splits

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What were the best articles on Tnooz this week?

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Google and FairSearch joy after ITA Software deal approved – which team won?

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Anyone reading comments from Google and listening to a press conference convened by FairSearch could be forgiven for thinking today was just a huge online travel love-in.

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Why online airfare search is broken

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With the thumbs up given to Google’s acquisition of ITA Software, and as Tnooz’s resident air geek, I have been looking at the issues of search for air products.

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Top travel websites in Australia – April 2 2011

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Most popular travel websites in Australia for the week ending April 2 2011.

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Google-ITA Software deal approved by US authorities, with conditions

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The potentially industry game-changing acquisition of ITA Software by Google has been given the thumbs-up by the Department of Justice in the US.

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Rough guide to the content-busting EdgeRank system on Facebook

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EdgeRank is Facebook’s new algorithm that decides which posts/updates in Facebook appear in a user’s “Top News” stream.

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Google StreetView heads into big destination attractions

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Fascinating initiative by Google to take the concept of its StreetView system and throw it at some of the world’s major city cultural hotspots.

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Behold the next generation travel agent

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The new travel agent is slightly different from the travel agent you know and love and have hired in the past.

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Part Two of Two: Hotel revenue management, meet reputation management

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In my last post, I discussed how social media has enabled a new measure of hotel performance: the Guest Satisfaction Index (GSI).

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Eviivo in £30M switch to private equity ownership

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Web reservation and property management company Eviivo has sold to tech private equity house Investcorp Technology Partners.

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