Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants

Re:Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from r... by soco on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:55AM (#30672483)

I already do this for hotel bookings. I'm fed up with Google, Booking.com or whoever trying to trick me into paying them for zero added value.

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Re:Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from r... by dawnerd on Monday March 14, 2022 @11:12AM (#30673359)

The worst thing about hotel rates is the hotels themselves basically force you to go through a third party unless you want to pay their insane markups. You'd think they'd want you to book directly too...

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Re:Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from r... by anaccountexists on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:00AM (#30672540)

You can’t directly book through Google, if I remember correctly. They’ll kick you out to the business’ site to do that.

They’re just an aggregator and get paid in referral fees. The value for you is in the aggregation engine.

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