Being located 17 hours ahead of Silicon Valley often has you lagging behind on the big news. On waking the other morning at home in Melbourne, Australia, the inbox and Twitters were abuzz – Google had launched a flight search product.
Why travel search startups have nothing to fear from Google
September 15, 2011 By 18 Comments
Google offered helping hand by Skyscanner to take Flight Search global
September 14, 2011 By 4 Comments
Many of those outside the often inward-looking bubble that is US online travel have always considered the more intriguing part of Google entering travel to be the global play.
FairSearch asks if Google Flight Search partners will be coerced into playing
September 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
FairSearch, fierce opponent of Google’s acquisition of ITA Software, was quick out of the blocks to pour a healthy dose of scepticism over the search giant’s launch of Flight Search.
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Will Kayak IPO? Company not so bullish on its chances
August 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Kayak now says its chances of executing an IPO are about 50%.
Jizo aims to take travel search to the next level in Russia
July 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Russia-based Jizo, a new travel metasearch service with a twist on the user experience.
Google entering travel could be nothing to worry about after all
July 19, 2011 By 27 Comments
Over the last several weeks we’ve seen continued hype on the output of the Google acquisition of ITA Software.
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Kayak IPO: Google-ITA Software acquisition still looms large
July 14, 2011 By 4 Comments
It’s been eight months since Kayak filed its registration statement for an IPO and there have been five amendments in the interim, but Kayak has yet to become a public company.
The $700M question: How will Google take travel search global?
July 6, 2011 By 21 Comments
Almost 12 months to the day, Google finally announced what many had been anticipating for years: the search giant was getting into travel in a major way.
Google flight search test not driven by ITA Software, probably OAG
May 27, 2011 By 3 Comments
An experiment by Google to show flight journey times and airlines operating a route is to be rolled out more widely in the next few days – but not all is what it seems.
Coming soon: more searches on Google Maps from mobiles than desktops
May 25, 2011 By 3 Comments
A significant milestone is looming in the coming weeks which may well demonstrate the importance of mobile to travel companies and how they communicate with customers.
