These companies stated they were concerned about Google's potential abuse of the software, especially if Google restricted other companies from licensing it; Bing, Kayak, Expedia, and many other travel sites use ITA for flight data.
Given Expedia is represented by counsel, the purchase of ITA will no doubt be front and center. It has added online commerce offerings in local retail and restaurants, comparison shopping and travel, and folded them into its search engine...
With continued acquisitions of vertical search providers like Google’s acquisition of ITA for travel search or Zagat for restaurant reviews, the core search engines appear focused on this type of searcher intent and I would expect their results...
Their fear was that the Google ITA deal would be anti-competitive and adversely affect the travel industry, and suggestions were even made that Google might be in a position to control prices for the consumer.
Additionally, we can expect Google to implement many more travel features in the near to mid future; Google has purchased several travel-oriented companies (the most prominent being ITA), and we have yet to see a strong implementation of the...
Despite the purchase of ITA, Google has yet to delve deeply into travel features beyond some basic flight info. What the Google Hotel Finder Is and that likely means an airliner full of travel-oriented extras from Google in the coming months.
Google is also mandated to further develop and offer ITA's next generation InstaSearch product, which is currently in development, to travel websites, which will provide near instantaneous results to certain types of flexible airfare search...
Though Google was finally cleared to buy ITA last month, Google says this tool doesn’t use ITA technology. Google trails way behind Bing Travel (powered by Kayak), which offers much more in the way of sorting features (e.g.price, airline, depart...
Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation after the Justice Department completes its review of Google's acquisition of travel software developer ITA Software and determines whether to challenge or impose restrictions on the deal.
Travel websites including Orbitz, Kayak, Hotwire, American Airlines, United Airlines, and even rival search engine Bing use ITA's software. Further develop and offer ITA's InstaSearch product (currently in development) to travel websites.
And their acquisition of the travel platform ITA has generated another antitrust issue. As numerous analysts have pointed out, Sergey Brin and Page have come a long way from founding the dominant search engine, which outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt...
Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation after the Justice Department completes its review of Google's acquisition of travel software developer ITA Software and determines whether to challenge or impose restrictions on the deal, Bloomberg...
Google's acquisition of ITA, which would give it access to flight data to enhance its vertical travel search offering, is still being looked at by the regulators and facing a stiff lobby from the vertical search engines with which it seeks to...
Google ITA Acquisition Will Not Leave Kayak Paddling Upstream by Frank Watson Kayak has partnered with Bing to help them with travel search results. Bing unveiled a nice little feature for searchers looking to travel.
Kayak co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Paul English said he welcomes Google in to the travel search space, but thinks his smaller company can be nimble and quicker to adapt to changes in the market and points out that Google does not have...
Although Google announced picking up travel company ITA for $700 million, that deal has been halted, at least tentatively. The acquisition of ITA has caused quite a stir in the travel industry and even spurred the creation of FairSearch.org.
Plus, Google's attempt to buy travel software company ITA is facing additional criticism from non-profit think tank American Antitrust Institute (AAI), which released this whitepaper Friday. The companies alleging Google wrongdoing are U.K.price...
U.S.asks about search fairness in Google/ITA - Reuters Bing Feature Update: Compare Travel Destinations & More - Bing Search Blog Can Search Engines Compete on Privacy? The proper URL structure helps paint a picture of hierarchical importance on...
Having worked for the law firm representing ITA - the travel software company Google is seeking to purchase - Christine Varney, the U.S. DOJ Antitrust Chief Recuses Herself From Google ITA discussions by Frank Watson
Having worked for the law firm representing ITA - the travel software company Google is seeking to purchase - Christine Varney, the U.S. Companies working in the travel industry are claiming Google's purchase of ITA could cause problems for them...
