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Google moves into travel market

[ 2 ] July 3, 2010 | Jakk

The global search engine giant, Google, has recently bought up a high profile flight information firm for $700m < throwing themselves in to the territory of the unknown. Google said it may well expand the scope, enabling users to search directly for flight destinations.

“What we’re going to do is build new flight search tools that focus on end users,” said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.

However, he said that the firm would not be selling airline tickets to consumers and that it would honour “all existing agreements that ITA has with its partners”.

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  1. It looks Google is putting its hand everywhere thus making the full use of it’s very famous brand name. Although whatever Google has done in past is been accepted well by users also. let’s see how users respond to this service of Google.

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  2. Lumixgeo says:

    I agree with Vipin at romantic :)

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