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Re:Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in ... by throwaway2037 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @01:44AM (#41042882) 

    > I booked a flight directly on Google Flights
Does anyone else have the experience where 25-50% of the click-here-to-buy from Google Flights just don't work? Is it bait-and-switch from the carrier?
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Re:Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in ... by ricardobeat on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:57AM (#41045044)
The underlying systems are old, slow and have multiple layers of caching, plus it’s a huge search space, so you’re never really seeing real-time availability. It’s just the nature of it that a lot of the times the tickets are already gone, though Google used to be one of the most reliable.
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Re:Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in ... by miohtama on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:53AM (#41045453)
It has happened for me many times, so could have some truth here
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