India is going to be a mobile-first country when it comes to the travel industry, says Google travel industry boss, Siddharth Dabhade.
Google’s take on mobile influence in Indian and US travel industry
April 18, 2013 By 3 Comments
Google updates Hotel Finder with date, neighborhood, brand, and travel time search
February 7, 2013 By 5 Comments
Google has updated its Hotel Finder tool to invite users to narrow their searches by neighborhood and time period, plus its first unique innovation in metasearch: “time-based search.”
Where Google Travel is heading, according to one of its employees
January 31, 2013 By 19 Comments
Yesterday, Google updated its Flight Search. To put things in context, James van Thiel, the industry leader for Google’s Netherlands Travel team, talks about integrating search with metasearch and other developments.
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Google reaches a truce with US regulators on antitrust probe, dealing FairSearch a blow
January 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Federal regulators closed a 20-month probe of Google’s search business without finding any antitrust violations.
Google tests hotel reservation tracking in its search results, using your booking e-mails
December 22, 2012 By 3 Comments
A search of a Gmail user’s in-box will fetch hotel reservation confirmations and then spotlight those confirmation e-mails in natural search results when the user runs an ordinary Google.com search on a phrase like “my reservations.”
Google may drop screen scraping of TripAdvisor and Yelp content to get government off its back
December 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
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.
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Latest assault on travel from Google: A virtual tour guide for mobiles
September 27, 2012 By 5 Comments
Following Google’s movement of Schemer to mobile, the company continues to push deep into the mobile travel application space with the FieldTrip app for Android.
The Scan: China holds its first major tourism forum, WeHostels goes mobile-only, and other news
September 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Some interesting facts were revealed at the three-day forum in Macao, China’s first 1,000-person global travel conference, and more items in our daily roundup.
The Scan: Kayak faces risks, Lufthansa wins in court, Qantas falters, and more travel news
August 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
BusinessWeek assesses the risks for Kayak, Lufthansa wins a US federal court judgment over its WiFi technology, Qantas post its first loss in 17 years, and more items in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 22 August.
Google Flight Search optimized for Android and iOS, but most of the world is still missing
February 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
Google has optimized Google Flight Search for Android and iOS mobile devices — before launching international capabilities.
