Almost three years on from announcing the acquisition of ITA Software and 18 months after launching a domestic-only service, Google Flight Search is finally heading overseas.
GoEuro attracts heavy hitter funding in $4 million seed round
March 4, 2013 By 4 Comments
Multi-modal travel search is gathering pace as GoEuro today announces $4m seed funding led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures
A fresh way of visualizing flight search aims to trump ITA Software Matrix time bars
January 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This is for the nerds out there: This interactive visualization for exploring flight options for a set of origin and destination airports was built as a “bookmarklet” and uses ITA Flight Matrix data.
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Google and Frommers, six months on – never about brand or books, just look at the bigger picture
January 30, 2013 By 12 Comments
For some, Google’s acquisition of Frommer’s in August last year triggered yet another sharp intake of breath that the Mountain View search company was wading further in on the travel sector.
From the Tnooz archive – Top-level domains (2012) and Google posters (2011)
January 16, 2013 By 1 Comment
Rolling back the years…
Superfly’s guerilla marketing on Facebook is luring travelers to its flight search
January 7, 2013 By 3 Comments
Superfly’s guerrilla marketing on Facebook has lured users to its fight search tool, and its new airline e-mail scanning service may let customers load up their mileage information in a single click.
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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.”
Forget flights, Google is quietly adding new features to Hotel Finder as rivals look on (and advertise)
November 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
Think all the love at in the travel division at Google is directed at the Flight Search product? Think again.
Google switch – says it now has a cautious approach to taking Google Flight Search global
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What a difference a year makes – at the 2011 PhoCusWright Conference in Florida, Google was reasonably bullish about its strategy for Google Flight Search.
For the sake of innovation in the travel industry, it is time to unleash the (Big) data
November 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
Big Data. I know, you’re totally sick of this topic. The chatter about Big Data is just numbing – even the Harvard Business Review joined the chorus a few months ago.
