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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...
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...
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.
The ITA deal has faced fierce opposition since the October formation of FairSearch.org, made up of Microsoft and other travel sites. Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation after the Justice Department completes its review of Google's...
Google ITA Acquisition Will Not Leave Kayak Paddling Upstream by Frank Watson Bing unveiled a nice little feature for searchers looking to travel. Kayak has partnered with Bing to help them with travel search results.
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 company also alleges that, after filing its original...
U.S.asks about search fairness in Google/ITA - Reuters Bing Feature Update: Compare Travel Destinations & More - Bing Search Blog Google's main target is content farms and sites that copy content from other sites and offer little useful, original...
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...
Justice Department may be preparing an antitrust lawsuit to stop Google's purchase of ITA Software, which is heavily opposed by FairSearch.org, made up of sites including Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, TripAdvisor, and Microsoft, because it...
Not shockingly, Microsoft also has joined the FairSearch.org coalition that opposes Google's acquisition of ITA. By directing users to Google services, Google can make its offerings take off in a broad class of services -- be it health, finance...
Google and a group of online sales travel sites that oppose Google's ITA acquisition traded jabs via video this week. FairSearch.org released "Google Buys ITA - A Travel Story" with their side of the story, in layman's terms explaining why the...
Seems many of the larger online travel sales sites fear Google's purchase of ITA - the technology behind 65% of all carrier-direct online flight searches in the U.S.and have banded together to try and stop the sale.
Seems many of the larger online travel sales sites fear Google's purchase of ITA - the technology behind 65% of all carrier-direct online flight searches in the U.S.and have banded together to try and stop the sale, DailyFinance reported.
On the positive side, there's been a batch of new launches and enhancements such as: 38 apps in the Google Analytics gallery; the Broad Match Modifier feature launch in the UK and Canada; its new SERP; Google TV; its new Caffeine search index; the...
Founded in 1996 by a team of MIT computer scientists, ITA's technically advanced algorithms for organizing flight information have been hailed as a catalyst for change in the online travel industry. Microsoft's Bing search service, which competes...
ITA Software Consumer Reports/Consumer Web Watch has published a new study that looks at how 11 travel search meta engines and aggregators like Kayak, Mobissimo, and Yahoo FareChase perform. Consumer Reports WebWatch found reasons to be concerned...
The Orbitz search engine is the ITA Software Flight Search Engine, developed by computer scientists from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ITA Software Flight Search Engine http://beta.itasoftware...
