AI search & the shift towards inauthenticity & commercial interests
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Topic: Google Travel
The rise of Google followership: Unlocking visibility on Google’s surfaces
Learn how Google is expanding into a surface ecosystem and why followership matters for brand visibility today and beyond.
Google announces additional travel advisory notices in search and updates to its trip planning tools
The user-oriented feature updates will help Google maintain an edge over competitors in the online travel sector.
Google Hotel search showing free listings in results
Google opens the door to more hotels by offering free hotel listings, separate from paid results.
Tripadvisor launches new listings, reputation and data products to help hotels and restaurants gain insights, boost visibility
Restaurants and hotels have been hit especially hard during COVID-19.
How verticalization and zero-click will impact local search in 2020
In the coming year it will be interesting to see how Google balances the priority of verticalization against the growing popularity of Google Maps as the first choice among searchers.
Google discontinues Trips mobile app
Users will be directed to use Search and Maps for their travel planning.
Google brings ‘end-to-end’ food ordering to Search, Maps, Google Assistant
This is part of a larger effort to own consumer transactions and help users "get things done" on Google.
“Trips” consolidates Google’s travel offerings
Enables advertisers and marketers to reach travelers on desktop and mobile.
What will Google Hotels mean for online booking sites?
The new site mirrors the UI of Google Flights and could have a similar affect on the hotel booking market.
Google adds price tracking features to flight search, hotel search and Google Trips
Google adds several features to help searchers plan their getaways.
With “Trips” app, will Google finally deliver a better travel experience?
New Google travel effort promises to bring together a range of tools and capabilities.
SearchCap: Google PayDay Loan 3.0, Bing Ads URL Tagging & World Cup Fever
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Launching Payday Loan Algorithm 3.0 Targeting Spammy Queries This Week Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced tonight that the third version of PayDay Loan algorithm […]
Google Introduces Richer Flight Search Experience
Google is introducing a revamped flight and hotel travel search experience. To date both products have been mostly underwhelming. The big promises of Google’s ITA acquisition have yet to bear fruit but that may change with the new Google Flight and travel search experience. Previously the best feature of Google Travel was Flight Explorer (immediately […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 20, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Up Close With Google+ Search It seemed pretty odd that a social network from the leading search company, Google, didn’t offer a way to search through all its posts. But that […]
Google’s Travel Opponents Hoping Bigger Antitrust Case Will Soon Follow
One area that the Justice Department’s Google-ITA settlement didn’t cover was so-called “search neutrality.” In a nutshell, this is the misguided notion that Google shouldn’t be permitted to send traffic to its own properties. In the extreme it argues that the government should regulate Google’s algorithm as well. While the term “search neutrality” carries a […]
Report: Google Negotiating With DOJ To Prevent Suit To Block ITA Deal
Politico is reporting, as have other outlets, that Google and the Justice Department (DOJ) are now negotiating intensely in the waning days of its investigation into the anti-trust implications of Google’s potential acquisition of travel software company ITA. According to the Politico article: The Justice Department has made it clear to Google that it’s willing […]
Czechs Say “Zastavit” To Google StreetView
Zastavit means stop or halt. And that’s what the Czech government has told Google regarding StreetView image collection in the central European country. The stated reason, according to the Czech Office for Personal Data Protection, is that Google did not have the required license/registration to conduct the activity. It’s not the case that Google failed […]