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Google Introduces Hotel Search

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Re: Google Introduces Hotel Search

#4
Couple things that impressed me ...

- Results are returned instantly. - The heat map idea, coupled with draggable area, is pretty cool.

Nice to see more competition and innovation in hotel search.

Re: Google Introduces Hotel Search

#5
There's good potential here for accurate price discrimination. If Google collects and passes on user data (especially now that there's G+), they'll know a banker can probably pay more for a hotel than a student.

I'm not sure if they'll put this into practice, but this sure gives them the ability to.

Re: Google Introduces Hotel Search

#9

There's good potential here for accurate price discrimination. If Google collects and passes on user data (especially now that there's G+), they'll know a banker can probably pay more for a hotel than a student. I'm not sure if they'll put this into practice, but this sure gives them the ability to.

Thus creating a world where everybody struggles to look as poor as possible to Google's algorithms in the hopes of getting a good price?

I'll just google "how do i gets my babby daddy to give me his welfare check" ten times a day, and use a separate account when it comes time to research private yachts. Cha-ching!

Re: Google Introduces Hotel Search

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post #8

Gorgeous. If only they could do the same for apartment/house rentals! Really, that would be perfect.

I think this is what you want: http://www.padmapper.com/

It doesn't have many listings, and their craigslist listings are incomplete and inaccurate.
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