Google to launch flight search service soon • Hacker News Board

Re: Google to launch flight search service soon

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Post by hackinthebochs » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 3:40 AM UTC

DannoHung wrote: post #6

inportb wrote: post #2

Ah... but would it be better than Hipmunk?

Yeah, Hipmunk is really great. The experience is so good I actually sort of wish I flew more often... or at least had to schedule flights more often. It'd be cool if they could handle other itinerary and reservation tasks. Though I don't know how they'd necessarily make money like that.

Man, the arbitrary downvoting on HN is starting to get out of control.

(downvote away)

Re: Google to launch flight search service soon

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Post by goldfish » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 4:09 AM UTC

ujjvala wrote: post #20

Google might acquire Hipmunk which already uses GWT.

No, we don't.

Re: Google to launch flight search service soon

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Post by sp332 » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 4:26 AM UTC

I wonder if it will have Google+ integration from day one. Planning vacations together, or making sure you're never in the same town as someone? Maybe timing your visit to coincide with a candidate's campaign, or "facilitating serendipity" with people who will be at your destination at the same time. With circles and sparks, this could get real interesting....

Re: Google to launch flight search service soon

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Post by jonburs » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

ujjvala wrote: post #20

Google might acquire Hipmunk which already uses GWT.

Why do you think Hipmunk uses GWT (by which I assume you mean Google Web Toolkit)? The source for www.hipmunk.com pulls in jquery, but doesn't have the history iframe or .nocache.js reference that one would expect to see for a GWT application.

Re: Google to launch flight search service soon

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Post by derrida » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 5:16 AM UTC

Wow. This is going to be interesting. Adioso.com (YC) is an amazing site, Google are going to have to try pretty hard to beat them for Australia, considering what Adioso.com can do without buying out a massive company.