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Google Travel Coming Soon?
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Posted by Barry Schwartz on Apr. 17, 2006

Russell Shaw feels that Google is making a play at the travel vertical. Russell spotted a Google job posting for a "Google: Senior Account Executive, Travel Vertical." Russell explains that the job posting details "sounds" that "Google is building a Google Travel brand." I personally do not see the wording suggesting more than Google sending more leads on a PPC or CPA basis to the major travel search engines. However, it would not surprise me to see Google release a http://travel.google.com/ some day. Last October they added a travel OneBox that brings you to travel engines such as Expedia (the default), Hotwire, Orbitz, Priceline and Travelocity.

Russell believes Google may partner or buy Orbitz, since it is currently fairly available to be bought and it is based on Chicago, just like the Google job opening. Time will tell on this, until then, you can search at Google using JFK to YYZ style searches to get the travel OneBox results from Google.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060417-091220