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Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights by jboydyhacker on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:54PM (#20658867)
It's actually not that amazing- they bought out ITA Matrix and just iterated on top of it.
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Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights by stefco_ on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:10PM (#20658945)
They added the last important missing feature from ITAMatrix, which was a direct link to a prefilled checkout page. That part is nice.
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Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights by H8crilA on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:42PM (#20659999)
Also speed, it is much faster. But it has all started with the purchase of the main route planning software (ITA), essentially a purchase of a monopoly.
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