Sunday, September 18, 2011

Google knows where are the cheapest airline tickets

After a long period of gap between the company's purchase ITA Software and launching something new, this week Google introduced Google Flights. As the service name suggests, the search firm is to centralize information about airline flights and tickets on a particular page of your powerful research system.


For now only working in the United States, Google Flights allows the user to verify dates and flight times, depending on the origin city and destination city. As with any type of service, Google lets you filter the information to show only certain travel between two airports, for example, travel or just happening on a certain day of the week.

In announcing the purchase of ITA Software in July 2010 already knew that Google would face complaints from other companies that do the same thing. A group of software companies focused on including aviation litigation initiated and launched a campaign to shed light on the supposed advantage of GooglepĆ³lio. In the end, the U.S. court ruled that the deal could be realized, since the search giant to license technology to other companies ITA.


Flights operating on Google
From what I see, Google is a kind of Flights Decolar.com captained by a huge company that has established itself on the Internet. The great advantage that Google does this release is to link the search of type 'flight from Chico to New York' to the results available on Flights - one way to bring more convenience to Internet users.

How could it be, Google takes a portion of the price paid by passengers to buy travel tickets after making a Google search on Flights. Fair enough (and is a standard procedure in such sites).