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Google usually does through the maps place card . To update that card, the hotel manager has to receive a postcard posted by google. Obviously expedia etc can't easily do that.
OP is talking about modifying their hotel reservation directly, not updating a google maps listing.
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Huh, interesting idea. I personally deliberately book though Booking and alike because it's so nice to have everything hotel related in one place especially when having long trips.
I always buy directly from the hotel assuming that I will be treated better due to the hotel earning more money from me due to not having to pay commission to a travel agent. Also, I assume there is less probability of errors since when you reserve on a travel agent website, your reservation goes through an additional system before it gets to the hotel.
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I always buy directly from the hotel assuming that I will be treated better due to the hotel earning more money from me due to not having to pay commission to a travel agent. Also, I assume there is less probability of errors since when you reserve on a travel agent website, your reservation goes through an additional system before it gets to the hotel.
It actually could be the opposite: since the OTA guest can leave a bad review, hotels may treat them better.
As a side note, I wonder if many people pay attention to reviews outside of extremely low rated places.
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As if every product you use isn't run/developed/maintained by legions of people you disagree with on at least one political issue. This is brought up every time there is a post on Brave. It's rather tiresome.
Also I switched from StartPage to Brave search, but I do wish Brave search had a translator feature. Like on StartPage I just search "translate" and get an input box. I find it better than most other browsers' translators.
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I always buy directly from the hotel assuming that I will be treated better due to the hotel earning more money from me due to not having to pay commission to a travel agent. Also, I assume there is less probability of errors since when you reserve on a travel agent website, your reservation goes through an additional system before it gets to the hotel.
I have yet to find an occasion where directly booking a hotel would give a better or even the same price as booking through booking and the likes.
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Fails my personal benchmark, unfortunately: haskell megaparsec operators -> should return [0] somewhere high in the result set. Found it on the third page of Brave Search. For comparison, it's the very first result on Google, second page for Bing, and the third page for DuckDuckGo. Sure, it's a bit obscure, and I don't even write that much Haskell these days. But it's calibrated to determine whether I can rely on the…
That's the first result on Kagi, but I think that's because they just call Google behind the scenes for you. Edit: I didn't mean this to be an insult, I pay for Kagi and use it exclusively. But actually, the Kagi and Google first page of results look fairly different for this query, so Kagi is doing more curation and ordering than I realized.
How can I know?
The magic is proven by the fact that Kagi mostly respect my queries (or accept my bug reports if I can prove they didn't) despite being built on the shaky foundation of Bing and modern Google.
Also there is some good old fashioned engineering there, like allowing me to pin, prioritize higher or lower or block certain sites.
What's the business plan though?