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Google Launches Flight Search

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Re: Google Launches Flight Search

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Post by jlees »

vaksel wrote: post #14

more warning for anyone in a lucrative space on the web...Google will eventually come for you. It happened to mortgage rates companies, it happened to flights, and eventually given enough it'll happen to any service that acts as a broker/affiliate for other companies.

Google will eventually come for you.

Or buy you. The trick is to be so good at what you do that it's easier for Google to fork out cash than engineering resources.

Re: Google Launches Flight Search

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Post by guelo »

vaksel wrote: post #14

more warning for anyone in a lucrative space on the web...Google will eventually come for you. It happened to mortgage rates companies, it happened to flights, and eventually given enough it'll happen to any service that acts as a broker/affiliate for other companies.

Warning to anyone in any lucrative market, you will have competition.

Re: Google Launches Flight Search

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Post by vaksel »

guelo wrote: post #22
vaksel wrote: post #14

more warning for anyone in a lucrative space on the web...Google will eventually come for you. It happened to mortgage rates companies, it happened to flights, and eventually given enough it'll happen to any service that acts as a broker/affiliate for other companies.

Warning to anyone in any lucrative market, you will have competition.

no this is different...with your competition you are more or less on a level playing field. With Google, they get to always place their stuff before you.

which means on the back end much lower traffic for the companies, which in turn drives down the rates you can charge for the leads.

Re: Google Launches Flight Search

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Post by naeem »

vaksel wrote: post #14

more warning for anyone in a lucrative space on the web...Google will eventually come for you. It happened to mortgage rates companies, it happened to flights, and eventually given enough it'll happen to any service that acts as a broker/affiliate for other companies.

A competition is a competition. While Google definitely has the leverage of it's name, it also has pressure to produce which freelance entrepreneurs do not. Ultimately I think good execution is all that matters... the Google brand will attract somebody to the product, but it won't make them use it.

Re: Google Launches Flight Search

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Post by ericd »

jlees wrote: post #21
vaksel wrote: post #14

more warning for anyone in a lucrative space on the web...Google will eventually come for you. It happened to mortgage rates companies, it happened to flights, and eventually given enough it'll happen to any service that acts as a broker/affiliate for other companies.

Google will eventually come for you. Or buy you. The trick is to be so good at what you do that it's easier for Google to fork out cash than engineering resources.

Not everyone wants to be bought, though, and those that don't shouldn't be at a disadvantage due to Google's position as the gatekeeper of web traffic instantly benefitting their own stuff over the incumbents.

This is what antitrust laws are for.

Re: Google Launches Flight Search

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Post by codabrink »

Yes, something like this is nice. I just wish someone else besides Google did it. Google is way too big. I'd much rather have a majority of the internet comprised of many small companies than several internet giants. It's much healthier..

Re: Google Launches Flight Search

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Post by masklinn »

zmmmmm wrote: post #5

Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc. If Google can link this to actual bookings then they are on to something huge, especially if they tie it into their other services (think - book flight, have it appear in your calendar wit…

> Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc.

Had you never tried hipmunk before this?

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