Google Now Issues Hotel Price Drop Alerts — But Only For Googlers

Google Now is testing a feature to notify users when their hotel reservation price drops. Currently it is only an internal test for Googlers.

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Has your hotel room price dropped since you originally booked it? Google Now knows and lets you know, but at the moment, only if you’re a Googler.

Brian White from Google shared on Google+, which is no longer available, that he booked a reservation with a hotel and then noticed in his stack of Google Now cards that Google was telling him there was a price drop on that reservation.

Here is a screen shot of the Google Now card Brian posted:

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So will non-Googlers get this notification? Google says it’s very much an internal experiment with no current plans to launch in that format.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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