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Re:Google Introduces Hotel Search by Shenglong on Friday July 29, 2011 @03:15PM (#2823356)
There's good potential here for accurate price discrimination. If Google collects and passes on user data (especially now that there's G+), they'll know a banker can probably pay more for a hotel than a student.

I'm not sure if they'll put this into practice, but this sure gives them the ability to.

Re:Google Introduces Hotel Search by hugh3 on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:24PM (#2823642)
Thus creating a world where everybody struggles to look as poor as possible to Google's algorithms in the hopes of getting a good price?

I'll just google "how do i gets my babby daddy to give me his welfare check" ten times a day, and use a separate account when it comes time to research private yachts. Cha-ching!

Re:Google Introduces Hotel Search by abraham on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:30PM (#2824094)
Why would Google do this? There is no way it would not be discovered leading to a lot of ill will and little gain for Google. Plus I know of no current Google marketplace where they adjust cost based on user information.