TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites

Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by superbrane on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:51PM (#22132588)

This is what happens when you pay huge amounts of money on Google Ads and traffic. They notice that you must be quite profitable if you afford to pay so much, so they come for your market. It will happen more and more and the more you pay to Google the more you help them take you out of the market.

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by threeseed on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:57PM (#22132653)

Actually this is all about Amazon.

Apparently in some countries users are going to straight to Amazon for their shopping searches and bypassing Google entirely.

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by luckylion on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:11AM (#22136603)

Isn't that a general thing? I hate the quality of Amazon's internal search, but Google's results for shopping related queries are just atrocious in my country. There's barely-related Amazon-Products on the top 5 places, SEO spam on the next 10, a few shops on pages 2/3 and then scam shops.

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by superbrane on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:52PM (#22132597)

1 more thought on this - Expedia and Booking are next on their menu...

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by sct202 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:27PM (#22133497)

Expedia had a bad last quarter and blamed it on Google. Booking has a good quarter and said they did a better job with retaining visitors to skip Google.

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by nemothekid on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:00PM (#22133789)

I wish these guys would follow AirBnb in at least pretending to care about design. I know Booking.com is trying, and for that I can retain the knowledge of going directly to Booking.com/AirBnb.

TripAdvisor's site is a nightmare to navigate. It's easier to find things by searching them on Google than trying to navigate TripAdvisor. I won't lose sleep once someone finds out how to arrange their information in a cleaner format.

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by what_ever on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:03PM (#22134715)

Tbh, AirBnB is pretty bad to use itself. Not b.com bad but still shouldn't be used as an example.

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by epa on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:10AM (#22136050)

Can you elaborate why you think they are bad?

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by arein2 on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:48AM (#22136506)

I once booked trough booking.com

When I arrived the hotel had all my credit card detalis printed on a paper that was just sitting there.

Never booked again trough that site.

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Re:TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competitio... by lern_too_spel on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:20PM (#22133435)

If it took Google that long to implement it, another search engine will beat them to the punch by simply noting that many users search for this information and would be much happier to get it without clicking through to another site.

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