Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
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Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#2This appears to be a time-limited promotion.
> When we predict the price won’t decrease for select itineraries booked between August 13 and September 2, we’ll guarantee the price won’t drop, and we’ll refund you the difference if it does.
Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#3This is awesome, I hope Google doesn't kill it!
Farecast did this and was bought out by Bing to become Bing travel, who then stopped the price guarantees.
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#4Google putting the finishing touches om the ITA software acquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
But oddly closed google trips, which frankly was decent. Google sometimes seems like incoherent.
Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#5> To see your trips and travel research, turn on these settings: Private results, Web & app activity
This is the main reason why I will never be able to use www.google.com/travel. I used to use the Trips app with no search history, but Google is shutting down Trips in favor of forcing people to loosen privacy settings. It is very disappointing because Trips worked very well.
Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#6Once their algorithm can predict prices to a certain level of accuracy, they can effectively offer investment hedging to the public for free, and use the publicity to drive commissions on referrals. Unlike other commodities whose value is subject to numerous economic forces, the pricing is set directly (by the airlines), and it is likely that simply by observing their pricing over time a sophisticated Google algorithm has "learned" the airline's less sophisticated ones.
Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#7Some airlines such as Alaska and Southwest already offer this but the pain is monitoring the drops for your fare class etc. If Google is automating that, then more power to them!
Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#8Google putting the finishing touches om the ITA software acquisition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software But oddly closed google trips, which frankly was decent. Google sometimes seems like incoherent.
During my business/tech econonomics class in college in 2010, one of the main course assignments was to argue for or against the ITA acquisition from a judicial perspective (i.e. would it create a monopoly).
No one in the class could really argue against it because as far as monopolies that Google could possibly create, that's pretty minor. A decade later, almost everyone seems to have forgotten that Google did it.
Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#9Google putting the finishing touches om the ITA software acquisition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software But oddly closed google trips, which frankly was decent. Google sometimes seems like incoherent.
During my business/tech econonomics class in college in 2010, one of the main course assignments was to argue for or against the ITA acquisition from a judicial perspective (i.e. would it create a monopoly). No one in the class could really argue against it because as far as monopolies that Google could possibly create, that's pretty minor. A decade later, almost everyone seems to have forgotten that Google did it.
What is Hipmunk using underneath?
Re: Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
#10> To see your trips and travel research, turn on these settings: Private results, Web & app activity This is the main reason why I will never be able to use www.google.com/travel. I used to use the Trips app with no search history, but Google is shutting down Trips in favor of forcing people to loosen privacy settings. It is very disappointing because Trips worked very well.
I use TripIt ever since Trips was shutdown. While it doesn't do everything, it does quite a lot (have all reservations etc in one place).