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Google is finally making good use of its lengthy and controversial acquisition of flight data provider ITA Software, by adding more flight search options. Google made the first step a few months ago, but it is now debuting a much more useful integration, albeit for only a few places.
The current flight data integrat... |
2 December 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Google finally has something to show for itself after the much-talked-about, for all the bad reasons, acquisition of flight data and services provider ITA Software. The acquisition under went government anti-trust scrutiny but was approved in the end. Now, Google is debuting a dedicated flight search tool, built into... |
14 September 2011
08:40 GMT |
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After a lot of drama, Google was allowed to buy ITA, a flight data provider, to bolster its search results with airfare info and the likes. This has always been a weak spot for Google, Bing has a much better vertical search tool for flights, while Google displays very limited data and mostly links to travel sites for... |
6 July 2011
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Google has made it official, the flight data OneBox that some users started noticing this week is making its debut. The search engine will now display flight data inside the results page, for certain flight-related queries. Interestingly enough, Google says that the tool doesn't use any data or technology from i... |
28 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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While others have touted the advantages of vertical search engines, optimized for a very specialized type of search, Google has always tried to do everything on the same page. That is changing somewhat, but it's not giving up on its approach, the latest example and perhaps the most telling, is a new, experimenta... |
24 May 2011
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A few months shy of a year since being announced, the Google - ITA acquisition has finally been approved by the US Department of Justice. For a while, it looked like this would be the big Google acquisition that will be challenged but it did not happen. Instead, Google agreed to some quite stringent conditions that r... |
11 April 2011
05:40 GMT |
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The proposed ITA acquisition has dragged on for ages now, as the DOJ investigates whether Google's plans are anti-competitive. And, with authorities seemingly bent on getting something on the search giant, after a few narrow escapes, it looks like this is the deal that will get Google into trouble. That is, unle... |
25 February 2011
14:15 GMT |
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For Google, every major acquisition is, increasingly, an uphill battle. The company announced its intention to buy ITA Software, a maker of flight search technology used by many travel websites and related services, last summer. But the move has been contested by many competing companies. The US Department of Justice... |
14 January 2011
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Google has been acquiring companies left and right in 2010 and there's still a couple of months left in the year. The company has revealed that it has acquired 40 companies in the first three quarters of 2010. "In August 2010, we completed the acquisition of Slide, Inc. (Slide), a privately-held social technolog... |
30 October 2010
06:40 GMT |
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A few months ago Google expressed its desire to acquire ITA Software, a company which provides flight data. ITA is used by many travel search websites, other search engines and even airlines. The deal is under investigation by the US Department of Justice and several travel sites have now banded together to voice the... |
26 October 2010
13:30 GMT |
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Despite initial signs that Google would be able to complete the ITA acquisition without too much fuss, it now looks like the company is going to have to wait as the US Department of Justice is apparently investigating whether the acquisition raises anti-trust concerns.While Google doesn't currently compete in th... |
7 September 2010
12:51 GMT |
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Google makes new acquisitions faster than most people change socks, but the latest one is a bit bigger than what it usually dabbles with. The search company has acquired ITA an online flight search technology provider which serves some big names in the web travel industry. Google hasn’t competed in the lucr... |
2 July 2010
03:51 GMT |
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