US regulators may end their antitrust investigation of Google’s search business by letting the company make voluntary changes, such as limiting use of restaurant and travel reviews from other websites, say two news reports.
Google may drop screen scraping of TripAdvisor and Yelp content to get government off its back
December 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
Google AuthorRank promises major changes for travel search
September 27, 2012 By 14 Comments
For the first time, Google may rank individual content creators by their own personal authority, and use those authority metrics to determine how highly their work should feature in other people’s search results.
Google sees last minute travel queries go mobile, desktop takes a dive
July 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
Google has recorded quite a spike in queries for last minute travel products from mobile devices in recent months
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Who is so far feeling the heat from Google Flight Search? No major surprises here
February 17, 2012 By 14 Comments
In October 2011, about a month after the buzz around the launch of Google Flight Search and (kind of) subsided, Tnooz published traffic share figures for the fledgling service.
How is Google Flight Search performing so far? Go on, have a guess
October 5, 2011 By 9 Comments
An extraordinary amount of interest in September when Google finally launched its long-awaited Flight Search product, five months after securing approval for buying ITA Software.
Google wanted simple flight search, but it got all the industry baggage as well
September 19, 2011 By 23 Comments
Appearances can be deceptive – as a few days of mulling over the new Google Flights tool has indicated.
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Google launches Flight Search with booking links to airline sites only
September 13, 2011 By 61 Comments
In a stunning move, Google and ITA Software unveiled their long-awaited Flight Search product — with booking links to airline websites only.
Stats – Big travel brands do not dominate natural search in Google
April 26, 2010 By 7 Comments
Some interesting figures from UK digital agency Greenlight Search which shows that size and brand does not matter when it comes to exposure in natural search results.
