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.
Barry Schwartz on July 28, 2015 at 1:23 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
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:
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 is a technologist and 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.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.