Re:How did Google get so big?
by GauntletWizard on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:36PM
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Travel search engines used to be big business. They still are, but they're hurting, and not a small part of it is due to Google having a onebox of flight info. I personally love that onebox - I book all my flights through it - but I'd have a hard time explaining how it's not anticompetitive. Vertical integration can have some great efficiencies, but it can also destroy once healthy markets, and I only see that getting worse with modern supply chain management and similar technologies.
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Are travel search engines hurting? priceline's stock is higher than ever?
This said, I agree with you on everything else you've said.
Re:How did Google get so big?
by GauntletWizard on Friday July 27, 2018 @06:07PM
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As is Expedias, though Trivago has been terrible since ipo; my assertion was not well founded.